Come out to John C. Campbell Folk School this weekend and get crafty
KATHI OSBORNE Contributing Writer

Above: Rural Felicity Garland Dancers will perform traditional English dances for audiences. Continuous music and dance performances on two stages are a big part of the weekend.

BRASSTOWN, NC - John C. Campbell Folk School will host its annual Fall Festival this weekend in Brasstown with over 200 craft vendors, 40 craft demonstrators, 30 performing music and dance groups, multiple kids' activities and a dozen food booths.

"We bring people together at Fall Festival to enjoy craft, music, and dance in the larger context of celebrating our Appalachian heritage," stated Jan Davidson, Folk School Director. "The Folk School is unique in America, and we're absolutely celebrating that too at Fall Festival."

Artists will be located in the Festival Barn and along the Folk School's bark-covered paths offering handcrafted items for sale. Many types of craft and art will be represented, including fiber, pottery, wood, metal, jewelry, painting, and glass.

Demonstrations of traditional and contemporary craft making will include blacksmithing and woodworking in the Mountain Life Area and pottery, spinning, woodturning, and jewelry in various studios on campus.

Left: Nick Cook fascinated his audience last year during a demonstration of lathe woodturning. The Folk School will host many demonstrations of various craft forms during the festival.

Continuous music and dance on the school's Festival Barn and Craft Shop stages will feature old-time, bluegrass, folk, gospel, and Celtic music as well as morris, garland and clogging dance styles.

A drum circle, face painting, and pony and wagon rides are available to children. The Humane Society will attend with their pet adoption booth.

Many local civic groups and churches raise funds at the festival by selling meals, snacks and drinks from their booths.

Through its craft items and photographs, the Folk School's History Center offers an overview of 20thcentury Appalachia and the school's 82-year history. The school's Craft Shop features the juried work of 300 regional artists in a variety of disciplines. Both sites will be open during the festival.

Below: Metalwork and pottery are just two of many handmade craft forms found at Fall Festival. Artists will offer jewlry, fiber, painting

The festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, October 6 and 7, from 10:00am to 5:00pm on the school's campus on Brasstown Road in Brasstown, NC. Admission prices per day are $5.00 for adults, $3.00 for children ages 12-17, and free for children under 12. Parking is free. For more information about Fall Festival or John C. Campbell Folk School, call 1-800-365-5724 or 828- 837-2775 or visit www.folkschool. org/fallfestival.

John C. Campbell Folk School offers adults over 830 weeklong and weekend classes year-round in traditional and contemporary craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography and writing. Founded in 1925, the nonprofit Folk School is a national landmark on the National Registry of Historic Places. Fall Festival Music & Dance Schedule
Saturday,October 6
FESTIVAL BARN STAGE
10:00 Betty Smith
10:45 Smokie Mountain Melodies
11:15 Campbell Folk School Cloggers

Below: Over 200 craftspeople and artists will line the Folk School's Festival Barn and bark paths with their wares.

12:00 Bashful Mountain Broadcasters
12:45 Staber & Chasnoff
1:30 Pure Profit
2:15 The Collins Brothers
3:00 Morris & Garland Dancers
3:45 Annie Fain & Friends
CRAFT SHOP STAGE
10:00 Crosstown Traffic
10:45 The Songtellers
11:15 John Rice
11:45 Roberta & Furman, The Marble Mountaineers
12:30 Barefoot Creek
1:15 Jerry Harmon
2:00 Butternut Creek and Friends
2:45 Buck & Nelson
3:00 Bean Sidhe
3:45 The Mountaineers

Sunday, October 7
FESTIVAL BARN STAGE
10:00 Sunday Morning String Band
10:45 Pure Profit
11:30 Sammy Walker
12:00 Blue Ridge Grass
12:45 Georgia Potlickers
1:30 Campbell Folk School Cloggers
2:15 Little Brasstown Baptist Church Choir
3:00 Morris & Garland Dancers
3:45 Irons In The Fire
CRAFT SHOP STAGE
10:00 Old Folks
10:30 Bashful Mountain Broadcasters
11:15 Jerry & Evelyn

Above: Kids will findlots to do, including pony and wagon rides, face painting, and playing in a drum circle. Don't forget the Humane Society's Pet Adoption booth!

12:00 Staber & Chasnoff
12:45 Mountain Valley Bluegrass
1:30 Tom Morgan & Lynn Haas
2:15 Shady Creek
3:00 Barney's Goat
3:45 Suzuki Fiddlers
4:15 Anne Lough

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