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Music, dance, stories and more...
Tickets - $17.50 Adults/ $12.50 Seniors and students/ $7.50 Eight and under/
Tickets - 828-389-2787 or www.thepeacocknc.org
An Evening of Appalachian Tales -
A fun-filled night of music, dance and stories
Saturday, August 23, 2025
7:30 pm
At the Peacock Performing Arts Center
301 Church Street, Hayesville, NC 28904
From the Orange Blossom Special to Rocky Top to Cotton-eyed Joe join us for a night of fun and entertainment. With outstanding performances by nine talented local musicians, dancers and storytellers celebrating the folk and mountain music, arts, family and tradition.
And an evening recognizing the 100 year celebration of the founding of John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown N.C.
From ridge to ridge and stream to stream. From mountain tops to valleys below. Calling the mountains home!
And touching the places we live.
Introduction
Artistic Director
Laurel Adams
Opening
Orange Blossom Special with harmonica legend
Buddy Greene
Welcome
Host and Storyteller
Kanute Rarey
Clogging and foot dancing with Campbell Folk School Cloggers of Brasstown, NC.
Story by Delmer Chilton of Brasstown, NC;
Poems with Mary Ricketson of Hanging Dog, NC.
Music and songs with
Jon and Tommy Hensley of Hayesville, NC
Story by Amanda Lawrence
Blairsville, GA
Intermission
Music by
Folk School Junior Appalachian Musicians of Brasstown NC
Story by
Anne Wheeler
Mission Dam, NC
Story by
Tom Lawrence
Blairsville, GA
Music and Songs with
Hannah Sage From
Dahlonega, GA
Finale
A special thank you to the John C. Campbell Folk School for their amazing first one hundred years, to the Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival for the beautiful quilts on display and to Mountain Area Storytellers for leading the storytelling revival in our mountain region.
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