Folkmoot USA

Luck O’the Irish Raffle

Come celebrate Saint Patricks Day with Folkmoot on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at Bearwaters Brewery in Canton at 7:00pm.

Between now and the event, Folkmoot friends will sell 500 tickets at $20 each for a chance to win $1,000. Proceeds benefit Folkmoot’s year-round programming initiatives including the Southern Storytellers Series, Nashville Songwriters’ Nights, Friendship Dinners and…

Nashville Songwriters in the Round Series

Songwriters in the Round opens at the Folkmoot Center on Saturday, Febraury 16, 2019.

Begun in Balsam in 1996 and modeled after similar performances at Nashville’s Bluebird Café, the Great Balsam Nashville Songwriters in the Round Series, now hosted at the Folkmoot Center at Historic Hazelwood School, presents signature in-the-round shows featuring Nashville area songwriters who pen the…

Lunar New Year at Folkmoot

What:              Lunar New Year Friendship Dinner, part of our Friendship Dinner Series

When:             February 8, 2019, 6 – 8pm

Where:            Folkmoot Friendship Center, Waynesville

Tickets:          Adults: $18     Students: $10 at 828.452.2997 or online: Folkmoot.org

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Join Folkmoot for a Friendship Dinner celebrating the Lunar New Year on Friday, February 8, 2019…

The Breacan Clann is a living history group at The Scottish Tartans Museum and Heritage Center, Inc. In keeping with their purpose to educate the public on the history of Highland dress, they have chosen visual medium in an engaging fashion. The represented historical dress  is from the Medieval through the Jacobite period. Demonstrations include, Highland broadsword, Scottish crafts, and…

Happy Holidays from your friends at Folkmoot

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Materials left over from campus demolition, renovation projects are finding new uses

Written by: Marlon Morgan, Communications and Public Relations Staff at Western Carolina University

Ever wonder what happens to all of the materials from the buildings that have been recently torn down or renovated on Western Carolina University’s Cullowhee campus?

Thanks to the university’s Office of Sustainability and Energy Management, nearly all of the materials, from light fixtures and…

Haywood County songwriters kick off ‘Art of Music’ festival

It all starts with a song! And there’s no better way to open the Balsam Range Art Of Music Festival than to gather some of Americana’s most impactful and influential songwriters for a special night of music, fellowship and fun in the historic Hazelwood School.

  Join Milan Miller, John Wiggins, Mark Bumgarner and Aaron Bibelhauser with Balsam Range’s Buddy Melton and Darren Nicholson for an…

Southern Storytellers Series Continues at Folkmoot

Author Ann Miller Woodford; photo by Chris Aluka Berry

In the final fall 2018 installment of the Southern Supper Series, Folkmoot, Blue Ridge Books, Haywood County Public Library and Smoky Mountain News will welcome Affrilachian author and artist, Ann Miller Woodford on Saturday, November 3, 2018, at 6:00pm at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville.

Ann Miller Woodford will share her…

It's a concert hall, a commercial kitchen and cafeteria, a dormitory, an event space - it's the Folkmoot Center. #avlnews #828isgreat

It’s a concert hall, a commercial kitchen and cafeteria, a dormitory, an event space – it’s the Folkmoot Center.

And it’s open for business – your event business

The Folkmoot Centeris literally – or was for many years – a school house and today as Folkmoot Center it’s reborn as a 40,000-square-foot multi-faceted facility providing space for conferences, group retreats, weddings, educational…

Folkmoot travels to Russia for CIOFF World Congress #NorthCarolina #avlnews

Folkmoot travels to Russia for CIOFF World Congress later this week and will join hundreds of others from many of the world’s folklore, folkdance and folk arts festivals.

CIOFF – the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts – is the global governing body for festivals like Folkmoot and provides incalculable assistance for ours and other affiliated festivals.…

It was a beautiful, sublime & golden evening #avlmusic #828isgreat

It was a beautiful, sublime & golden evening with legendary Haywood County artists Buddy Melton & Milan Miller.

Two of Haywood County’s favorite sons, awarding winning vocalist and musician for the world-renowned Balsam Range band, Buddy Melton, teamed up with his favorite writing partner, award-winning and world-renown singer and writer, Milan Miller, to entertain and educate with stories and…

Southern Storyteller: the homespun mountain life of Ashley English #NorthCarolina #828isgreat

Southern Storyteller Suppers: the homespun mountain life of Ashley English is set for October 4 and will feature homesteading, living well off our mountain land and Appalachian nourishment of body and soul.

English’s presentation will be the second in our series of Southern Storyteller Suppers. Our premier event, set for Sept. 6 with music legends Buddy Melton and Milan Miller, is sold out.

Ticke…

Folkmoot runs on volunteers! #NorthCarolina #SmokyMountains

Folkmoot runs on volunteers!

That is true of any non-profit organization, of course, but volunteers are essential, indispensable, crucial, critical, cannot-exist-without when the non-profit organizations produces an annual 10-day international folk dance festival as well as year-round programs and events.

Oh yes, Folkmoot runs on volunteers!

The good news is Folkmoot is blessed with some of our…

#CherokeeNC has always been popular with visiting Folkmoot performers! #828isgreat

Cherokee has always been popular with visiting Folkmoot performers!

The town of Cherokee and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians always draw the particular interest of international dance troupes visiting Western Carolina from around the globe for our annual Folkmoot Festival.

And for good reason, of course.

The story of the Cherokee people is both tragic and triumphant. Tsalagi history,…

Step into the circle characterized by #diversity #culturalunderstanding

Step into the circle characterized by diversity.

“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity,”  said human rights activist and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

An essay by Nina Dove

(Editor’s Note: the author is a senior at Tuscola High School in Waynesville, NC, and served in the summer of 2018 as a Guide for international dance troupes participating in our Folkmoot Festival 2018.…

Images of Folkmoot 2018 - Intrepid Media #NorthCarolina #SmokyMountains

Oh, most certainly, we have many of those stunning images of Folkmoot 2018!

Folkmoot is a veritable feast for photographers, videographers, artists of all kinds who love to capture colorful, compelling, engaging images and share them with the world.

And each Folkmoot Festival produces so many beautiful images it’s actually very difficult to try to corral them all into a central place where…