NC Symphony to perform at TCCC
Famous orchestra visits the mountains next week
      Musicians from across the state will share the stage with the North Carolina Symphony in Capital Bank's "Blue Skies and Red Earth," a late May celebration that showcases the richness of the traditional music of North Carolina. The performance, which marks the first time the North Carolina Symphony...
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Sammy Walker to perform at Folk School
      Folksinger and songwriter Sammy Walker will be featured at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 18 in the C o m m u n i t y Room of the John C. Campbell Folk School in B r a s s t o w n . Before the concert begins, the public is welcome to enjoy a public exhibition of Folk School student crafts from 6:40 - 7 p.m....
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See "Harvey," or will you?
Show about an invisible rabbit opens this Friday
      "Harvey" opens May 18th at the Peacock Playhouse in Hayesville. This Pulitzer Prize winning comedy is as funny now as it was when it opened on Broadway in 1944. The play follows kind, gentle Elwood P. Dowd (Wayne Roshaven) who is a friend to everyone. However, it happens that his best friend is a s...
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Hiking the Carolina mountains
      A new hiking book about the Carolina mountains has just been released by Milestone Press. The author, Danille "Danny" Bernstein, will be at Phillips & Lloyd Book Shop on the Square in Hayesville, NC discussing her book on hiking in our mountains on Saturday, May 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Alabama poet to read at JCFS
Oklahoma native to deliver prose as well
      John C. Campbell Folk School and N.C. Writers Network West are sponsoring a reading of poetry and prose at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 17, at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. Reading will be Rosemary Royston and Al Manning. Rosemary Royston resides in Blairsville, Georgia. Her poems ha...
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Auditions- "Sound of Music"
      Auditions for Licklog Players' production of "The Sound of Music" will be held Saturday, May 19 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Monday, May 21 from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. and Tuesday, May 22 from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. at the Peacock Playhouse in Hayesville. Nancy Davis will be directing this family classic of the mus...
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Folk School story to air on PBS
NC's Bill Friday's interview of Davidson airs May 18 and 20
By Kathi Osborne Guest Writer
      Jan Davidson, Director, of the John C. Campbell Folk School, will appear on UNCTV 's PBS program "North Carolina People" on Friday, May 18 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, May 20 at 5:30 p.m. UNCTV 's longest-running program, "North Carolina People" conducts one-on-one interviews with the Tar Heel State's wri...
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