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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 10

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  • Participants of a previous Mountain Duleimer Week at Western Carolina University constructed these duleimers during John Hurens course Building a Traditional Mountain Duleimer. The course returns during this years program to be held June 20-25. Apply Now for Mountain Dulcimer Week WCU is currently accepting applications for the fifth annual Mountain Dulcimer Week, an experience in early Appalachian musie, to be held June 20-25. Featured this year is a class for beginning dulcimer players, taught by North Carolina ballad singer and multi-instrumentalist Betty Smith. No previous musical experience is necessary and loaner? duleimers will be available for individuals who do net awn one. Smith is the author of Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers, and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Brown Hudson Award from the N.C. Folklore Society and the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Award for Contributions to Appalachian Music. She performs throughout the United States and internationally. Musician John Huron of Bristol, Tena., will teach Building a Traditional Mountain Duleimer. Participants will construct their own dulcimers, which they can to take home at the end of the course. Ne previous woodworking experience is required. and the Recky Mount Living History Museum. Afternoon and evening classes will include The Story of the Appalachian Dulcimer and Songs and Tunes of the Mountain Pioneers by dulcimer historian, author and musician Ralph Lee Smith, and Ballads on the Dulcimer and Old Hymns on the Dulcimer with Betty Smith. Also included will be Old-Time Southern Appalachian Music for Dulcimer, Bluegrass Music on Dulcimer and a class on mountain clogging. The mountain dulcimer, also called Appalachian dulcimer, is a stringed instrument that ig is indigenous to the Southern Appalachians. For a complete listing of all classes and | performances at Mountain Dulcimer Week, visit http://cess.weu. .edu/dulcimer of call (800) 928- | 4968 to request a catalog. ArtsFest Expanding, Moving | From Summer to Fall 2004 of the arts. The festival was envisioned as part of our efforts at Western to provide the type of musie, theatre dance and fine arts programming sought by a growing percentage of the traveling population, said John W. Bardo, chancellor of the university, With the positive response we received after the two summer festivals, we think we achieved that goal. Now that the new center is opening later this year, its time to continue the evolution from a single weekend of programming into a major series spanning several weekends, Bardo said. A university committee is working to develop Changes are in the works for the CulloWHEE! ArtsFest in 2004, as organizers of Western Carolina Universitys annual celebration of the fine and performing arts are expanding what was a one-weekend event in early summer into a series of events to be held throughout the fall semester. The revamped CulloWHEE! ArtsFest Series is being planned to coincide with the opening of Westerns new Fine and Performing Arts Center, a $30 million showcase for the arts and humanities. Currently under construction, the 122,000-square-foot facility will provide classrooms, studios, galleries and support space for students in the arts, theatre and dance, including a 1,000-seat hall capable of hosting Broadway-quality performances. The idea behind the original CulloWHEE! ArtsFest was for Western to provide a presence for arts in the region and to become a destination for patrons nationally known entertainer who will perform at the grand opening of the Fine and Performing Arts Center, most likely in late October or early November. Details on the series will be announced as soon as they become available. fe Ae a E i | | t 4 . ie & | E fee Ee i a BE E j : fe | Hurons duleimers and banjos are currently in use at Colonial Williamsburg, Old Salem | a schedule of events for the new arts series, including a | wc_news@email .wcu.edu Mountain Folklore Series Continues A Blue Ridge Parkway official will be featured as WCUs new mountain folklore series continues during upeoming weeks. Phil Noblitt, interpretive specialist and manage- ment assistant for the Blue Ridge Parkway, will discuss representations of Appalachian culture in the history of the National Park Service on Wednesday, April 7. The presentation begins at 7:30 P.M. in the auditorium of Westerns Mountain Heritage Center. The events are free and open to the public. The folklore series at Western is being spon- sored by the universitys Division of Academie Affairs, Mountain Heritage Center, and ethnography laboratory in the department of anthropology and sociology, along with the Ethnography and Indian Affairs Branch in the Cultural Resource Division of the Southeast Regional Office of the National Park Service. For more information, contact Philip Ted Coyle at (828) 227-3900, or by e-mail at peoyle@weu.edu. ee 928-4968 or toll free
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