Mountain Dance and Folk Festival
 

2011 Performers List (order may change, dance teams to be added as available)

Thursday

 Pre Show:
Cherokee’s Warriors of AniKituhwa;

MCs: Carol Rifkin and Jerry Sutton
Ed Herron
Grey Eagle - Stoney Creek Boys
Dance Team: combined
Runners of the Green Laurel
Paul's Creek Band
Dance Team: Green Valley Cloggers
Donna Ray Norton
Crooked Pine
Dance Team: Mountain Laurel
Sit Down Square Dance
Dance Team: Avery Smooth Dancers
Peg Twisters
Don Pedi
Brooke & George Buckner
Dance Team: Southern Mountain Smoke
Whitewater Bluegrass Co.



Friday
MCs: Laura Boosinger and Kevin Hamlin
Grey Eagle - Stoney Creek Boys
Dance Team: Fines Creek Flatfooters
Clearwater Connection
Joe Penland
Jake and Sarah Owen
Dance Team: Extreme Tradition
BearWallow Bluegrass Band
Dance Team: Cole Mountain Cloggers
Sit Down Square Dance
Dance Team: Dixie Darlins
Roger Howell
Most Wanted Bluegrass
Bryan McDowell
Laura Boosinger
Dance Team: Southern Appalachian

Bobby and Blue Ridge Tradition
 
Saturday

MCs: Richard Hurley and Glenn Bannerman
Ed Herron
Grey Eagle - Stoney Creek Boys
Dance Team: Mountain Tradition Cloggers
Betty Smith
The Trantham Family
Paul Crouch
Dance Team: Southern Mountain Fire
Lenny Hollifield and Appalachian Consort
The Cockman Family
Dance Team: Bannerman Family
Sit Down Square Dance
Dance Team: Stoney Creek Cloggers
Richard Hurley
Bryce and Katherine Parham
Dance Team: UNCA Smooth Dancers
The Snyder Family
Dance Team: Appalachian Mountaineers

  


Traditional Mountain Music and Dance in Asheville, NC

Summer 2011: Sister events Shindig on the Green , now in its 45th year, and the 84th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival showcase performances by hundreds of the Southern Appalachians' best traditional mountain musicians and dancers. Bound by the tradition of "Along About Sundown" these gatherings call to mind, and continue the tradition, of the era when local folks of all ages regularly gathered at the end of the day on front porches and the like, with fiddles, banjos and guitars in hand and dancing feet at the ready. Come celebrate the treasured cultural heritage of Western North Carolina throughout the summer at these events organized by Asheville's Folk Heritage Committee.

Held outdoors at Pack Square Park in the heart of downtown Asheville, Shindig on the Green is FREE and has been voted the #1 Local Outdoor Concert in the Mountain Xpress "Best of WNC" survey for four years running. Bring your instruments, your lawn chair or blanket, family and friends and join the fun for these eight summer Saturdays. The nation's longest running folk festival, the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival showcases the top talent in traditional mountain music and dance during a three-evening festival August 4, 5 and 6 2011 at the wonderfully intimate Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place.
 

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