Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 21, 1994 TAG: 9412210065
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: TODD JACKSON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Carter is the daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter of the original Carter Family that pioneered country music in the Bristol, Tenn., area during the 1920s.
She will perform Carter Family songs at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and she will hold a workshop on "Songs of Childhood" at noon and a workshop on "Native Virginia Ballads" at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
A "Native Virginia Ballads" exhibit inside the college's Blue Ridge Institute will also be on display. The exhibit - featuring newspaper clips and the history of ballads such as the "Wreck of the Old 97" - was created by Pat Sky, a folk musician who recently completed a restoration of the Institute's folk music archives.
Other performers Saturday to be featured on one of three different stages include: religious folk artists Brother Daniel Womack, the Moose Family and the singing Good Family; and regional old-time fiddle and banjo music performed by the Dry Hill Draggers, Laurel Fork Travelers and the Three Barrs from Galax.
More than 40 craftspeople will demonstrate traditional skills - quilting, basket making, tobacco twisting, wood carving and knife making as well as others - and visitors can sample 25 old-time foods to be prepared by regional church and civic groups.
The festival will also feature Virginia largest horse pull and coon mule jumping contest and working dogs will compete in treeing contests and water races.
Marble and checkers tournaments are scheduled and children can spend time in the festival's petting zoo.
Admission to the event - billed as Virginia's largest showcase of regional folkways - is $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and $2 for children ages 6-15. Admission is free for children under 6.
The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. rain or shine on the Ferrum College campus. Ferrum College is located on Virginia 40 in southwest Franklin County.
For more information, call the Blue Ridge Institute at 365-4416.
by CNB