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The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival is the nation's oldest folk festival. Founded in 1928 in Asheville by famed folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the festival is held the first weekend in August in Asheville and draws old-time and bluegrass musicians, balladeers, storytellers, and dancers.
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The South has a rich legacy of playwrights. When Gary Cole moved from Portland, Oregon to Raleigh, he realized that North Carolina did not have a festival that highlighted Southern playwrights. Having been an active member of the theatre community in Portland, he set out to see what he could do. Sauls discusses how a mixture of one fan of Southern playwrights with a magical old theatre in Wilson's Edna Boykin Cultural Center and a supportive local community resulted in the Theatre of the American South Festival. The festival debuted in May 2006.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 12, May 2007,
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Called by some the world's greatest dance festival, the American Dance Festival performs for seven straight weeks in June and July at Duke University. Here the world's leading modern dance companies come to introduce new works and showcase older modern works. Some festival performances have grown too large for Page Auditorium at Duke, and a new and larger venue is being sought.
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Sauls describes things to see and do, where to stay and where to eat during a weekend visit to Durham.
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The 2002 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award honors North Carolinians who keep the state's cherished traditions alive through their music, stories, and artistry. The 2002 winners include Jerry Wolfe, Oscar \"Red\" Wilson, the Cole sisters, The Briarhoppers, Bishop Dready Manning, and Emmett Jones.
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North Carolina has a rich musical heritage. There is definitely something for everybody. Symphonic music is heard in smaller towns as well as larger ones. Seven opera companies perform across the state. Composers, such as Robert Ward, create new compositions. Lovers of the blues can hear the music of Scott Ainslee, Etta Baker, and George Higgs. Bluegrass lovers can find a wealth of musicians playing across the state including bands like Molasses Creek and the Shady Grove Band.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences teamed up with students at Broughton High School in Raleigh to create a new program designed to help students move beyond their normal biology course. The program allows students to come to the museum every other day, assist with education and outreach, and conserve and inventory specimens.
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North Carolina Naturalist
(NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 9 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2001,
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The North Carolina Folk Heritage Award recognizes those individuals whose work preserves the cultural traditions of families and communities. Winners for the year 2000 are Reverend F. C. Barnes, Marvin Gaster, Melvin L. Owens, Bobby McMillon, Amanda Crowe, and James Allen Rose.
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Wayne Martin, folk life director at the North Carolina Arts Council, explained how traditional arts are an integral part of the culture of North Carolina and can contribute to a wealth of opportunities in cultural tourism. If done well, heritage tourism spurs economic development and helps preserve cultural traditions at the same time.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences serves a vast array of citizens in their outreach and education programs. Senior centers, Scout organizations, and school groups are among the groups that benefit from these programs. The museum has also become fluid in adjusting the programs to help incorporate better teaching styles for deaf, blind, bilingual, and distance learning patrons.
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North Carolina has many strong school arts programs, often aided by school-community partnerships. Under the North Carolina Basic Education Program, public schools strive to offer a comprehensive arts education for students taught by certified arts teachers.
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The Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, formerly St. John's Museum of Art, underwent a massive expansion recently and reopened in April 2002, with a new 42,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that allows the museum to fully display its stored works. It is the only museum in the country whose \"primary purpose is collecting, archiving and displaying the art of North Carolina.\"
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Traditional music, which includes ballads, gospel music, and string-bands, is music that is not only shaped by a community, but also varies from place to place. String-band music, played on the fiddle, banjo, guitar, and other stringed instruments, is one of North Carolina's best-known music styles. Through CDs and the Internet, traditional music has gained a wider audience of listeners.
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Ruth Russell Williams of Henderson relies on her memory of a rural upbringing as the source and inspiration for her paintings. Williams, who never had any formal art instruction, began painting some thirty years ago “as a way to try something new.†Her work has been compared by some to that of Grandma Moses. Williams's work is much in demand, and large originals can sell for $6,000. Television shows buy prints to use on their sets; a Mazda commercial featured one; and a recently published book, FORTY ACRES AND A MULE, will feature a painting on the cover.
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The North Carolina Symphony celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary this season. In a tribute to the symphony, six of the state's composers contributed works to a new series entitled POSTCARDS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. The composers--Paul Elwood, Kenneth Frazelle, the late Roger Hannay, Stephen Jaffe, Anthony Kelley, and Robert Ward--were commissioned to write four-to-six minute pieces that convey what the North Carolina experience means to them. Sauls discusses the compositions.
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