by Emolyn Liden, Programming Operations Assistant on October 8, 2009
in Fall Festival
The Sunday Morning String Band, Jan Davidson, Martha Owen, and David Liden started the day out right with some old time fiddle tunes. This year they invited guests to the stage. Fred Ward, a friend from England, played some tunes from old Britain on the melodion, which looks like a small accordion. Before long they [...]
by Emolyn Liden, Programming Operations Assistant on October 6, 2009
in Fall Festival
Saturday morning was chilly but at least the skies were blue. After over a week of rain we had crossed our fingers hoping the clouds would float on through Brasstown without drenching Fall Festival with unpleasant rain.
And so it was sunny, but those who stopped by in the early morning had to bundle up to [...]
by Paul Garrett, the Folk School's resident blacksmith on October 1, 2009
in Blacksmith Shop
I just got back from a great long weekend in Troy, Ohio where I attended my favorite blacksmithing conference of all of them, the Quad-State Round-up. The conference is held late in September every year at the fairgrounds there, and it draws a lot of people. Among them are a bunch of the Folk School’s instructors, [...]