Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival
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Shakori Hills 1439 Henderson-Tanyard Rd, Silk Hope, North Carolina
Shakori Hills
Musicians:Over fifty musical acts will take on four stages for a four-day extravaganza of grassroots music and art. Sustainability Workshops:Held Friday and Saturday on topics such as solar power, food preservation, and creating universally inclusive and designed spacesDance WorkshopsThroughout the weekend dance workshops for all ages and skill levels will be offered for those who would like to learn moves from masters of Salsa, Zydeco, Clogging, Afro-Haitian, and moreMusic WorkshopsSinging Saw Workshop with Crystal BrightCarribean Rhythms Workshop with The SaturatorsExploration of Latin Rhythms with TumbaoImprovisational Workshop with Annie in the WaterSaturday ParadeLed by the Bulltown Strutters, bring your noisemakers, don your snazziest festival garb, and come along with the Bulltown Strutters as they journey through the festival grounds celebrating life and loveSpirit MasksCome with a partner to make and decorate a plaster mould of each other’s face. Create an alter-ego, an archetypical symbol, or your personal totem.All Things FiddleFiddle Maker Mike will walk through the steps it takes to bring beautiful melodies to life on a fiddle and give participants a chance to play one for the first time.Make Your Own DidgeridooJoin Fuz Sanderson from the Piedmont Earthskills Gathering to learn about making, designing, and playing this primitive instrume
PRESS RELEASE:
Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, celebrating 16 years in 2019, is 4-Day bi-annual music festival with over 50 performers, including 57 this fall, on four stages that benefits the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center. The Arts Center provides free, or greatly reduced, music and arts programming to Chatham, Orange, and Durham counties.
The 72 acre festival site has been described as a “music lovers’ paradise” and is located less than an hour from Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Greensboro.
The Outpost provides programming for children 10 - 18 and the Kids Tent is for Seedlings and Sprouts. The Kids Tent is one of the most active parts of the festival with face-painting, yoga, arts and crafts, comedy and variety shows, and pumpkin carving.
Kids 12 and under are free and there is a special youth rate for 13 - 15 year olds, as well as a discount for Chatham County residents.
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