From the category archives:
Music and dancing is the heartbeat of the Folk School. While students, instructors, and staff work during the week, it is at the dances and concerts when the community comes together to have fun. Free concerts are held almost every Friday night at the school and this Friday Paul and Jerry Wilson and their family will [...]
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Our very own Folklorist David Brose has been doing a show on one of our local radio stations that I think you should know about.
On WLSB 1400 AM and WYHG 770 AM on Saturdays from noon to 2 pm, David presents a 2 hour show called “The Mountain Valley Homecoming” that features 18 years of [...]
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Last weekend the Keith House Community Room was taken over with shuffle-step-rock-steps, chugs, and good ole’ plain ole’ stomps! Eventually we scooted into Tennessee Walking steps, buck steps, and syncopated moves. My sister, Annie Fain Liden, and I had twelve students and we established first thing on Friday night that we were there to have fun! [...]
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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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The rocking chairs out on the porch were empty. Oak leaves covered the ground. Umbrellas leaned against the wall and rain coats hung on the coat racks.
We may have had to hurry from class to meals, trying to stay dry, but I heard more than once “There is nothing better than listening to the rain.” [...]
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