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Pikeville, TN
Fall Creek Falls Mountaineer Folk Festival 
Fall Creek Falls State Park
Pikville, TN
423-881-5298
Mid September
www.myfallcreekfalls.com
Donations/CST
This is a great event! Many of the best country, folk, bluegrass, and old time musicians are booked at this festival, including Leroy Troy, Roy Harper and Johnny Bellar, Bobby Fulcher and Mike DeFousch, Marion County Bluegrass, Piney Ridge, and The Cumberland Band, just to name a few.
In addition, a wide variety of traditional folk crafts are not only shown and available for sale, but demonstrated there at the festival. In past years they have shown sheep herding with trained sheepdogs, sheep shearing, spinning and carding, dying, and knitting and weaving of homespun woolen yarns. Soap making, natural dyes, paper making, doll making, wheat straw work, silhouette work, pottery, basket making, and ironwork are some of the many traditional crafts available for sale, and demonstrated by craftspeople.
The large festival grounds at Fall Creek Falls State Park is a wonderful place for the event. Loud booms of Civil War cannons crash in the background-- re-enactors demonstrating the technologies and costumes of that era-- while wrought iron workers demonstrate their craft and take orders for commissioned works. Stained glass artisans work on projects in between questions from curious visitors.
Mountain dance is also featured at the festival, with demonstrators of buck dancing, square and circle dancing, clogging and 'called' country dancing.
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