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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, September 25, 1994                   TAG: 9411080051
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TENN. FOLK FESTIVAL IS NATIONAL EVENT

The 56th National Folk Festival will be held Oct. 7-9 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Performers from across the United States will appear, including gospel choirs, honky-tonk singer and guitar wizard Junior Brown, veteran soul band Big Joe Dossett and the Mighty Coachmen, masters of traditional Hawaiian chant and dance, Hula Halau O Lilinoe, and delta bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys.

The event is the country's oldest multicultural celebration of traditional music, dance, folklife and food.

For more information, call (615) 756-2787 or (800) 322-3344.



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