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Macon County's Heritage Comes Alive!!

 

Folk Heritage Association of Macon County, NC proudly sponsors the
 

5th Annual Franklin Folk Festival

 

A Celebration of Appalachian Heritage
 

July 18& 19, 2008

 

Featuring:

Entertainment Demonstrations
   
Civil War Re-enactment Children's Activities
   
Local Organizations Food
   
Local Authors Parade

Children's Activities Schedule

Entertainment Schedule

(click here to view in a printable PDF format)

Times                  Gazebo Stage  Lil Church in The Wildwood        Stewart Street Stage
         (Downtown Courthouse Square) (In the chapel of The First Baptist Church) (Rathskellar Coffee Haus Parking Lot)
9:00 AM Banjo music with Tom Estes    
9:30 AM The Carolines Women's Chorus     
10:00 AM Sweet Tater Band     
10:30 AM Macon Mountaineers & Sweet Tater Band Prime Timers  Nikwasi Dulcimer Players 
11:00 AM Parade & Introductions    Parade
11:30 AM Corn Shucking Contest & Sweet Tater Band  Welch Family Indian Gospel Singers Robbie and Elbridge
12:00 PM High Mountain Squares & Frog Town IV   Lunch talks with Barbara McRae
12:30 PM Frog Town IV Men Macon Music  
1:00 PM Frog Town IV continues    Mountain Jam with Dave, 
       Tom, Robbie and Elbridge
1:30 PM Dietz Family Band Sugar Fork Baptist Church Choir  
2:00 PM Spelling Bee Winners Announced & Dietz Family Stewart Street Duo
2:30 PM Welch Family Singers & Duncan & Duncan Old Timey Hymn Sing Men Macon Music
3:00 PM Duncan & Duncan Welch Family Indian Gospel Singers  Robbie and Elbridge
3:30 PM Stewart Street Duo    
       
                     Main Street Shops               Other Venues 
                David Landis playing Bagpipes         MAIN STREET FLORIST 
  11:00 Parade 12:30 Scottish Tartans Museum   11:30  Macon Mountaineers dance
                         All at 1:00 PM   12:30  High Mountain Squares dance
              Nikwasi Dulcimer Players will play at                    SCHOOL HOUSE 
            Primrose Lane and Historical Museum   10:00 Banjo Tom 
  Franklin Consort will play at the Art Association   12:00 Nikwasi Dulcimer Players 
      1:30  Patti McClure Storytelling 
  Patton String Band will be the entertainment      
  for Friday Night with Tom Estes on Banjo    
       
  The Frog Town Reenactment Camp will host     
  a Civil War Fashion Show at 12:00 Noon    

 

 

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