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NC Folk Festival: Continuing and redefining tradition

NC Folk Festival
Paul Brown
A North Carolina Folk Festival banner adorns a light pole in Greensboro, NC.

The inaugural North Carolina Folk Festival is the focus of our latest ATBR show, #141.  Arts Greensboro, businesses and the Piedmont Triad community are teaming up to continue where the National Folk Festival left off after its three-year run in Greensboro, NC.  

The National, which is run by the National Council for the Traditional Arts and moves to a new location every three years, was very successful in establishing the festival in Greensboro and proving that it could be popular and sustainable in our community.  

Check the NC Folk Festival webiste linked above, and hear this week's show for more information about a festival that continues a legacy and adds new ideas and interpretations.  -- Paul Brown

Former 88.5 WFDD News Director Paul Brown founded Across the Blue Ridge at WFDD in the late 1980s. It was an instant hit, and was broadcast on WFDD for more than a decade until Paul left to become an executive editor, producer, reporter, and world newscaster at NPR in Washington, DC. Now Paul is back in his beloved Blue Ridge region, his journalism and storytelling skills honed better than ever. He's ready to present more music, share discussion with more interesting characters, and be your friend and guide in discovery. Paul is actively involved in today's acoustic music scene, crisscrossing the region and the country as a teacher, performer, and interviewer.

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