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Folkmoot 2016 features our own mountain dance, too.

#Folkmoot2016 features our own mountain #dance, too. #Appalachian

When you think of Folkmoot you certainly think of international folk dance but Folkmoot 2016 features our own mountain dance, too.

Just has it has for the past 32 years, Folkmoot will feature the very best dancers and musicians from right here in Western North Carolina – unique dance, unique music which springs only from our own region!

Kim Ross

A big thanks to Kim Ross, a member of the Folkmoot…

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Flat footing in Big Stone Gap. Gathering in the Gap is a yearly music festival.

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Appalachian Dance at Folkmoot!

#Appalachian #Dance at #Folkmoot!

Experience the beauty and history of Appalachian dance at Folkmoot.

Appalachian Dance Class 101 features instruction in square dance formations and basic flat-foot and clogging styles unique to the Haywood County mountains.  

Kim Ross, Director of the J. Creek Cloggers, is the instructor.  Classes are from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the Folkmoot Community Center, 112 Virginia…

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In honor of Epiphany and Old Christmas Day (jan 6) I decided to learn the song Breakin' Up Christmas.   

Breakin’ Up Christmas is both the name for 12 days of partying, dancing, and music making ending up on January 6th, Old Christmas day, and also a song sung during that period. The tradition harks from the area that roughly includes Surry County NC, nearby Grayson and Carroll counties in VA, and the independent city of Galax located between the two.

Hooray Jake, hooray John Breakin’ up Christmas all night long Santa Claus come, done and gone Breaking up Christmas right straight along Don’t you remember a long time ago The old folks danced the doesey-doe

http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/12/breakin-up-christmas-2.html