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Don’t call it a comeback; they’ve been here 50 years: The Kentuck Festival of the Arts will be back live for 2021.
Among the many celebrations, events and adventures swept away by the pandemic calamity of 2020, cancellation of last October s festival dimmed one of the most vibrant, beloved traditions in west Alabama.
“The festival to me is like a revival,” said Amy Echols, Kentuck’s executive director, “because I get such a nurturing and empowering feeling….It’s energizing to be around all that creativity, and to be around all those artists.”
An amalgam of traditional, visionary and contemporary art, craft, music and other creative endeavors, the Kentuck Festival is a have-to-be-lived-in crazy quilt, wound with fiber, steel, wood, canvas and color, bound by customs, contraptions and folklore, and underpinned by widespread roots grasping the inventive, innovative, wild and weird at heart since its origins in a 1971 downtown Northport street fair.