35th Annual
|
|||
 |
Come Celebrate the Music, Dance, Crafts and Arts of the
British Isles and Appalachia At Beautiful Rugby, Tennessee.
FEATURED PERFORMERS:
SHEILA KAY ADAMS
Renowned Ballad Singer & Storyteller From Western North Carolina
BUTCH HODGKINS & LONESOME COUNTY LINE
Traditional Cumberland Plateau Bluegrass
THE BOYS OF COUNTY NASHVILLE
Lively & Haunting Irish Music & Song at Its Best
Coal Mining Songs & Tales by TONY THOMAS - Old Time Gospel by the JOHNSON SISTERS
AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Performers are sponsored in part by grant support from
the Tennessee Arts Commission, Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville,
and East Tennessee Foundation Arts Fund. Media sponsors include
Knoxville’s WUOT-FM, WDVX-FM - East Tennessee Public TV
SEE PERFORMER SCHEDULE BELOW
Dance around the Maypole…jump up and buck dance…hear great old-time music… tour antique filled buildings….visit with more than 80 crafters and artists… all at Historic Rugby’s Festival of British and Appalachian Culture on May 16-17. Festival activities are at the restored Victorian village on East Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau. Festival hours Saturday are 10 am – 6 pm; Sunday 10 am - 5 pm EDT.ALL ACTIVITIES are included in one low $8.00 daily admission for adults, $4.00 for K-12 students. Preschoolers and Historic Rugby Members are free. Two-day admission is $12 and $6. One-day rate of $6.00 is available for groups of 12 or more when reserved in advance.
Performers will appear throughout each day outdoors at the main Festival Tent and indoors at the new Rebecca Johnson Theatre.
The Rugby festival will showcase more than 80 traditional arts and crafts exhibitors and demonstrators including potter Hugh Bailey, broom makers Ann and Steve Bell, blacksmith Stephen Feinstein, tatter Joye Gowan, treenware artist Karen Davis, chair caner Betty Newman, animal call maker Homer Hooks, cornshuck doll maker Helen Cargile, shoemaker Matt Matteson, stained glass artist Sara Senft, white oak basket maker Scott Gilbert , rug hooking by Gail Hill, Sue Duncan spinning and weaving, David Scutt, long rifles, the Amsdens making hammered and lap dulcimers, goat milking and goat milk soap by LaBelle Acres, and many more. Children will especially enjoy live animal demonstrations plus special hands-on activities on the Christ Church lawn.
Regional crafters and artists will display and sell pottery, dolls, weaving, woodwork, handmade soaps, jewelry, white oak and reed baskets, candles, stained glass, honey and beeswax candles, wreaths, bird carving, art prints, watercolors, photographs and much more at booths throughout the historic grounds.
Lark In The Morn English Country Dancers will teach and perform on the grounds, including traditional Maypole dances for visitors of all ages.
Historic buildings open to festival goers will include the 7,000 volume Thomas Hughes Public Library, unchanged since 1882; the founder’s rural gothic home with 1880s furnishings original to the colony and the Rugby Schoolhouse, all with guides to share their history. Historic Christ Church Episcopal will also be open to visitors both days, and all will be welcome to the regular 11:00 a.m. Sunday church service.
The Rugby Visitor Centre & Theatre will show the national award winning history film, RUGBY: The Power of a Dream, throughout the weekend. Visitors can also view the 32-foot wall mural of the Rugby village in its 1880s heyday.
Plenty of traditional food and drink will be available at Historic Rugby’s Harrow Road Cafe for home cooked meals, sandwiches and desserts plus booths with pit cooked barbecue; pinto beans and cornbread; lemonade, funnel cakes, Muddy Pond Mennonite goodies; and the Wilsons of Monterey serving homemade ice cream cranked by an old-time hit & miss engine.
There’ll be 19th century letterpress demonstrations at the restored Rugby Printing Works; the Commissary Museum Store will be full of handcrafts, British foods, old time Watkins products, bone china teapots and other old time wares plus Victorian period books, antique prints and gifts and an extensive selection of Rugby and area history books. Spirit of Red Hill Nature Art & Carriage House Art Gallery will also be open both days.
Call Historic Rugby at 1-888-214-3400 for group admission, Rugby and area lodging, camping and other information or email rugbylegacy@highland.net.Saturday AT THE REBECCA JOHNSON THEATRE
10:00-5:40 Repeat Showings of Film - Rugby; The Power of a Dream
4:00 SHEILA KAY ADAMS–Ballad Singing & Talk
Saturday AT THE MUSIC TENT
10:45 Johnson Sisters
11:15 Tony Thomas
11:50 Butch Hodgkins & Lonesome County Line
12:40 Sheila Kay Adams
1:30 Boys of County Nashville
2:20 Tony Thomas
3:00 Johnson Sisters
3:30 Boys of County Nashville
4:30 Butch Hodgkins & Lonesome County Line
SUNDAY AT THE REBECCA JOHNSON THEATRE
10:00-5:40 Repeat Showings of Film:
Rugby: The Power of A Dream (22 mins.)
Sunday AT THE MUSIC TENT
12:00 Johnson Sisters
12:30 Sheila Kay Adams
1:15 Tony Thomas
1:45 Butch Hodgkins & Lonesome County Line
2:00 Johnson Sisters
2:30 Sheila Kay Adams
3:15 Tony Thomas
4:00 Butch Hodgkins & Lonesome County LIne