Content by NC Folk Festival. Greensboro’s North Carolina Folk Festival features the usual festival fare — food, music, art and crafts — but with a twist.
The North Carolina Folk Festival will take place in person this September. This follows last year’s virtual presentation. The three-day festival that celebrates creative and cultural traditions through music, dance, food, and crafts will take place live this September 10-12 in downtown Greensboro. President and CEO Amy Grossmann says they made the decision based on Governor Roy Cooper’s recent executive orders and local ordinances on gathering capacities.
Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane
GREENSBORO â Over the last three years, A Celebration of Black Excellence had featured stirring performances by a community choir, Western Guilford High Schoolâs jazz band and more recently, local singers and speakers.
But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit shortly after last yearâs ACOBE Fest and continues to prevent crowds from gathering, founder Jordan Lee didnât think he could make the festival happen this fourth year.
His supporters disagreed.
âTheyâre like, âNo, it still needs to happen,ââ Lee said ââJust how are you going to make it happen in a different way?ââ
Lee contemplated how to do that.
An online series from Blue Ridge Music Center features Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder and Grammy Award-winner Rhiannon Giddens in conversation about women in the music industry.
âA Place in the Band: Women in Bluegrass & American Roots Musicâ dropped on Tuesday at the Galax-based music centerâs YouTube channel, with links posted at blueridgemusiccenter.org. Interviews with Giddens, upright bass juggernaut Missy Raines and North Carolina Folk Festival director Amy Grossman launched a 10-part series, according to a news release from the the Blue Ridge Parkway-based venue.
The series, which Blue Ridge Music Center associate program director Marianne Kovatch created, sprang from a 2020 project that honored the 100th anniversary of womenâs suffrage in the United States. The right to vote was just one step on the path toward equality, Kovatch wrote in an email conversation.