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The COVID-19 pandemic silenced North Carolina’s international folk festival last year. But Folkmoot, held in the mountains of Western North Carolina, is returning this summer. It will look different, but it will still celebrate cultures of the world. Caption: Scaled down Folkmoot festival to return this summer. Folkmoot traditionally brings in music and dance performers from multiple countries. Last year, most of the festival was canceled.
Folkmoot’s future is in good hands
To the Editor:
Arts organizations have had an extraordinarily challenging time during the pandemic, and it’s been no different for Folkmoot.
As the Folkmoot’s Executive Director from 2015 until last August, I want to express my gratitude to the community and our staff as we collectively transformed North Carolina’s International Folk Festival from a single, annual summer festival into a year-round arts and cultural organization. The Folkmoot family has had regrettably few chances to work together since early in 2020, so I write this letter in part to retrospectively thank staff, volunteers and donors for all of their efforts.