/tags/national-folk-festival National Folk Festival en-US Copyright Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:00:00 GMT /news/2018-09-03/north-carolina-folk-festival-to-bring-international-local-talent-to-the-stage Greensboro is getting ready for another big folk music festival this weekend, but it's not the National Folk Festival, it's the inaugural North Carolina… Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:00:00 GMT /news/2018-09-03/north-carolina-folk-festival-to-bring-international-local-talent-to-the-stage Naomi P. Brown /arts-culture/2016-09-09/national-folk-festival-goes-beyond-the-prototype The National Folk Festival gets underway in Greensboro on Friday night, marking the three-day festival's second year in the Triad. This year's rendition… Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:37:52 GMT /arts-culture/2016-09-09/national-folk-festival-goes-beyond-the-prototype Will Michaels /arts-culture/2016-09-09/diali-cissokho-kaira-ba-bring-the-sounds-of-senegal-to-the-south Diali Cissokho comes from a long line of musicians and griots in his home country of Senegal. So when he came to the United States, continuing to play… Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:05:14 GMT /arts-culture/2016-09-09/diali-cissokho-kaira-ba-bring-the-sounds-of-senegal-to-the-south Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2016-09-09/diali-cissokho-kaira-ba-bring-the-sounds-of-senegal-to-the-south Diali Cissokho comes from a long line of musicians and griots in his home country of Senegal. So when he came to the United States, continuing to play… Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:05:14 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2016-09-09/diali-cissokho-kaira-ba-bring-the-sounds-of-senegal-to-the-south Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2015-09-04/a-country-music-misfit-forges-his-own-path Guitarist Dale Watson feels out of place in the modern country music world, and he is perfectly OK with that. The Texas musician believes the genre has… Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:03:25 GMT /arts-culture/2015-09-04/a-country-music-misfit-forges-his-own-path Anita Rao, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2015-09-04/a-country-music-misfit-forges-his-own-path Guitarist Dale Watson feels out of place in the modern country music world, and he is perfectly OK with that. The Texas musician believes the genre has… Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:03:25 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2015-09-04/a-country-music-misfit-forges-his-own-path Anita Rao, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2015-08-28/folk-storytellers-preserve-family-heritage For Lloyd Arneach and Sheila Kay Adams, storytelling runs in the family. Arneach was raised as a Cherokee on a Native American reservation in western… Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:55:00 GMT /arts-culture/2015-08-28/folk-storytellers-preserve-family-heritage Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2015-08-28/folk-storytellers-preserve-family-heritage For Lloyd Arneach and Sheila Kay Adams, storytelling runs in the family. Arneach was raised as a Cherokee on a Native American reservation in western… Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:55:00 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2015-08-28/folk-storytellers-preserve-family-heritage Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Frank Stasio