From the category archives:
At Dance Musicians week it so happens that there are numerous people wandering around with instruments looking to play music. During the week-long musical “take-over” you can hear music all around campus. The musicians are put into bands and before long they infiltrate the nightly dances and bump the instructors off stage. David Kaynor, Susan [...]
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Here we are at John C. Campbell Folk School for another week of music and dancing. This is the seventeenth year of this fantastic class, with dancing every night for everyone, and dancing and playing every day for the 21 instructors and students participating in the class. Monday morning we identified the class goals and [...]
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Is little middle already a memory? How did it come and go so fast? When I was a kid I went to Little/Middle every year. I took all the classes in the book. Mostly they were along the lines of the adult courses offered – quilting, woodcarving, enameling, pottery, blacksmithing, etc. This remains to be [...]
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Summer is here and so is Little/Middle Folk School. While the campus is taken over by kick ball, card games, picnics, and the fire truck that stopped by on Tuesday to spray the kids off – there is still one adult class happening, and that’s Dance Caller’s Week. You can sign up as a dancer [...]
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Morning song at the Folk School is a cherished way of waking up. We can slowly get out of bed, walk to the Keith House Community Room, make a cup of coffee or tea, and for thirty minutes before breakfast, blink, yawn, and listen to music. Depending on who is performing – listeners are invited [...]
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