From the monthly archives:
You meet the most interesting people here. Over the years, I’ve learned from and enjoyed talking to some of the world’s great characters right here in Brasstown. Shortly after I became the Director of the Folk School, I asked some of my musical and crafts friends to tell me great people we should try to [...]
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Martha Owen and Norman Kennedy joined together this past week to teach an advanced spinning class at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Norman learned to spin, knit, and weave from his grandparent’s generation, from people who were working with textiles in the late 1800s, when Victoria was still the Queen.
Martha is the resident fiber artists at the Folk School. [...]
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We were pleased to have Alan Jabbour teaching at the Folk School last week. We had twelve fiddlers eager and ready to go and thanks to Alan’s instruction we worked our way through fifteen tunes. Most tunes were in standard GDAE, but we did venture into DDAD, and GDAD.
Alan taught us by ear and we followed [...]
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We got snow! On Monday the sun was shining bright in a clear blue sky, but by Friday the weather reports were in, and sure enough the flakes began to fall. It had been below-freezing for a couple of days, with night temperatures dipping down to nine degrees, so the snow stuck.
As the sun began to set, [...]
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