{"id":4009,"date":"2012-03-05T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"mountain-dance-and-folk-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/mountain-dance-and-folk-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Dance and Folk Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BascomDancer-e1300305531225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1110\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BascomDancer-e1300305531225.jpg\" alt=\"BascomDancer\" width=\"640\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BascomDancer-e1300305531225.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/BascomDancer-e1300305531225-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>In 1928, Bascom Lamar Lunsford turned his vast knowledge of traditional music and his organizational skills to the creation of a local music festival.\u00a0 The Asheville Chamber of Commerce had long sponsored an annual Rhododendron Festival, highlighting mountain arts and crafts.\u00a0 Lunsford developed music and dance to accompany the celebration and thus gave birth to the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, now the nation\u2019s oldest folk festival.\u00a0 The festival has a long tradition of promoting local musicians and dancers.\u00a0 Many credit it with the creation of the popular clog dance teams.\u00a0 In the 1970s, the festival spawned the Shindig on the Green, held on Saturday evenings during the summer on Pack Square in Asheville.\u00a0 The festival is held the first weekend in August.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MtnFolkDance60Mx.mp3|titles=MtnFolkDance60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1928, Bascom Lamar Lunsford turned his vast knowledge of traditional music and his organizational skills to the creation of a local music festival.  The Asheville Chamber of Commerce had long sponsored an annual Rhododendron Festival, highlighting mountain arts and crafts. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[52,65,137,163,380],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-culture","category-institutions","tag-asheville","tag-bascom-lamar-lunsford","tag-clogging","tag-dance","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}