Dulcimer Celebration Week is always the highlight of an Appalachian musician’s calendar, and this class is particularly unique. It is a combination of students interested in one or both of the two different kinds of dulcimers. There’s the hammer dulcimer, which has been traced back to ancient Persia, and the mountain dulcimer (or lap dulcimer), [...]
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Today, Governor Beverly Perdue came to Cherokee County. In downtown Murphy, she visited the Cherokee County Court House and The Cherokee Scout newspaper, and then it was on to Brasstown. The Governor asked me to ride with her so we got a chance to talk about the Folk School. I told her how we contribute [...]
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The much awaited first class in the Clay Spencer Shop was a resounding success. Everything worked as advertised, and except for a few minor glitches, the week went smoothly. The class was full, and they gave the place a good shakedown. I was pretty happy to see that all the planning paid off, and that [...]
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Today, we opened the new Clay Spencer Blacksmith Shop. After a week of moving some of the tools and tables and things from the the old Francis Whitaker shop, we are ready to teach classes again, and welcome instructor Judy Berger, her son David, and the students of Intergenerational Week. We had a small but hardworking [...]
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The second weekend of July saw the last forging class in the historic Francis Whitaker Blacksmith Shop. Jerry Darnell was here to teach his “Colonial Lighting” class. Interestingly, Jerry was here for the first class that Francis ever taught here at the Folk School in the mid-seventies, and said that he drove something like six [...]
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