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Category: Festivals & parades

Ramps & Ruritans: Tales of the Revered and Reeking Leek

For folks in Flag Pond, TN each spring brings again the age-old combination of ramps, potatoes, bacon grease, and black iron.

April 17, 2009 Festivals & parades / South Carolina

Acres of pink, orange, and purple azaleas in Pickens

The Azalea Festival in Pickens, SC offers up classic cars, a pet pageant, hot air balloon rides, and of course, acres and acres of pink, orange, and purple azaleas.

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March 19, 2008 Appalachian music / Festivals & parades

True to my love, my love’s been true to me

The poor younger sister in this song was done in by her own kin so she could take her lover. Granny recorded this song for Folkways Records.

September 20, 2007 Carnivals & circuses / Festivals & parades / Kentucky

The Black Gold Festival

The Black Gold Festival in Hazard is Kentucky’s second largest festival (the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon/miniMarathon is the largest).

August 3, 2007 Festivals & parades / North Carolina

Rhododendrons?…no, no. Folk music!

What started as the Rhododendron Festival of 1927 was transformed into what we today recognize as a ‘folk festival’ by Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

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