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Thursday - Saturday
July 30th
July 31st
August 1st
7:00pm - 10:00 pm
Since 1928, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers and others have come to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” the first weekend in August at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival.
In 2009, performers at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will take to the stage for the 82nd time as the nation's longest running folk festival.
2009 Mountain Dance and Folk Festival Performance Schedule:
(Note: schedule is subject to change)
• Thursday, July 30: Jerry Sutton and Carol Rifkin, Masters of Ceremonies; dance team Little Darlins; The Rhinehart Family; dance team Peg Twisters; Buncombe Turnpike; dance team Appalachian Mountaineers; Adam Masters; Carol, Jamie & Troy; Whitewater Bluegrass Company; dance team Dixie Darlins; George and Brooke Buckner; Don Pedi; AppalachiaSong; UNCA Smooth Dancers; Doug & Darcy Orr; and High Windy.
• Friday, July 31: Laura Boosinger and Flora McDonald Gammon, Masters of Ceremonies; Elk Mountain Cloggers; Hominey Valley Boys; Laura Boosinger; Bobby Hicks; Green Valley Cloggers; Phil and Gaye Johnson; Tipton Hill Boys; Donna Ray Norton; Cole Mountain Smooth Dancers; Bobby and Blue Ridge Tradition; Flora McDonald Gammon; Bryan McDowell and Arvil Freeman; Cole Mountain Cloggers; Buddy Davis Family and Friends; Joe Penland; and the Bailey Mountain Cloggers.
• Saturday, August 1: Glenn Bannerman and Richard Hurley, Masters of Ceremonies; Fines Creek Flat Footers; Betty Smith; The Griggs; Leonard Hollifield and Friends; Dogwood Mountain; Avery Smooth Dancers; Clearwater Connection; Bryce and Kathryn Parham; The Cockman Family Bluegrass Gospel Group; Stoney Creek Cloggers; dance team The Bannerman Family and Friends; Roger Howell and Friends; Bluegrass Mafia; Mac Snodderly and Flave Hart; dance team Southern Appalachian; and the Dowden Sisters.
