Lunsford Festival
The Lunsford Festival is an all-day festival celebrating regional music and dance traditions. The event is the second longest-running folk festival in Western North Carolina and was named in honor of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who was a musician and folklorist who dedicated his life to collecting and promoting the music of the Southern Appalachians.
Festival website: https://www.mhu.edu/about/what-to-do-and-see/ramsey-center/lunsford-festival/
The festival brings out the region’s finest musicians, ballad singers, and dancers and it happens on the same day as the Madison Heritage Arts Festival, so Mars Hill is abuzz.
Join us in honoring the rich cultural traditions of the Southern Appalachians!
2023 Performers
Bailey Mountain Cloggers
Carolina Cold Ones
Sara Nell Chase
Bayla Davis and Cary Fridley
Josh Goforth
Roger Howell
Brandon Johnson
Lonesome Mountain Ears
Old Time Ramblers
Nobody’s Darling String Band
Don Pedi
Branson Raines
Carol Rifkin & John Mitchell
John Roten
Sourwood Ridge
Rodney Sutton
Southern Heritage
White Rock Revival
Nicholas Edward Williams
Additional Details
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