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The Appalachian String Band Music Festival (often referred to simply as "Clifftop") is a weeklong gathering of thousands of string band musicians and their friends from across the country and around the world, who each year since 1990 have assembled near the New River Gorge in West Virginia in late July/early August to celebrate the evolving tradition of old-time music and the community of ...
For five days during the first week of August each year, the Appalachian String Band Music Festival [48] is held in Clifftop, West Virginia. This festival is dedicated to the preservation of authentic old-time string band music as well as traditional flatfoot dancing and square dancing. It features competition, performances, and workshops.
Clifftop, Fayette County,West Virginia. / 38.00417°N 80.94389°W / 38.00417; -80.94389. Clifftop is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. [1]
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Jake Blount is an American musician and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. [ 1] He specializes in the traditional music of African Americans, [ 2] and his work has been described as "Afrofuturist folklore." [ 3] Blount, while initially recognized for his skill as an old-time banjo player and fiddler, [ 4][ 5] is a versatile multi ...
The All Good Music Festival and Camp Out was a weekend-long event held annually in July. Since its inception in 1997, [1] it had been held at venues along the Mid-Atlantic, including Trip's Farm (Terra Alta) Masontown, West Virginia, Brandywine, Maryland and most notably Marvin's Mountaintop. It moved to Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio in 2012.
There are also long-standing traditions of solo listening pieces and fiddle songs, such as those documented in West Virginia by Erynn Marshall in Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions (WVU Press, 2006). In dance music as played by old-time string bands, emphasis is placed on providing a ...
He also played at the Newport Folk Festival, the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia, and many more highly esteemed venues.