Playlists from the NC Folk Festival
The North Carolina Folk Festival has compiled playlists, based on themes and topics relaying stories and elements of folk culture, that are meaningful to the guest curators we have invited to create them.
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Compiled by:
Chris Williams, Executive Director of Eastern Music Festival
Dom Flemons, member of the old-time string band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, preforming at the 2018 NC Folk Festival. 📷 Photo by Unknown. Compiled by: At the height of the Covid-19 crisis in March and April, the news was rife with stories about potential food shortages and troubles in our food distribution pipeline. With these
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Atiba Berkley, President of the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society
Piedmont Blues Society Performer Veronika Jackson plays at the Guilford College Underground Railroad Tree as part of the North Carolina Folk Festival's 2020 Virtual Concert Series. 📷 Photo Credit: Brendan McLean. Compiled by: Our playlist for the 34th Annual Carolina Blues Festival is designed to showcase artists from our original lineup as well as our
Compiled by:
Chris Williams, Executive Director of Eastern Music Festival
World-renowned Irish band Lúnasa performed at the 2019 NC Folk Festival. 📷 Photo by Unknown. Compiled by: County Armagh-born fiddler Brendan McGlinchey’ reel Splendid Isolation opens and closes this collection of fiddle tunes from Ireland, Scotland, and North America. The opening setting, by NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Burke (born in London to parents from
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Amy Grossmann, President & CEO
Mariachi Los Camperos at the 2016 National Folk Festival in Greensboro, NC. 📷 Photo by Lynn Donovan. Compiled by: For six months in the mid-2000s I lived in Los Angeles. I had just left my job in Washington, D.C., taking only what fit in my car as I drove 3,000 miles cross country with dreams
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Carolyn Bucknall, Web Content Intern
Indian singer, songwriter Kiran Ahluwalia. 📷 Photo by George Whiteside. Compiled by: When I attended the 2015 National Folk Festival here in Greensboro, NC, I remember being amazed at the sheer breadth of musical traditions represented and that there could be so many ways to express our experience of the human condition. Growing up listening