Arts & Entertainment
McKissick Museum to Hold FOLKFabulous Saturday
The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at USC's historic Horseshoe, and is free and open to the public.
To celebrate its 25th anniversary of the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards, the University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum is holding a folk heritage festival on Saturday on the campus' historic Horseshoe.
FOLKFabulous features live performances, demonstrations, hands-on art-making activities and more.
Some performers include Dr. Will Goins (Native American foodways, music, and dance); M.J. Holden (luthier); Martha Benn MacDonald (Highland fling, Scottish balladry); Ricky McDuffie & Family (gospel quartet); and Freddie Vanderford (blues).
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The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and is free and open to the public.
McKissick Museum, in partnership with the South Carolina Arts Commission, has offered the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards since 1988, according to the museum's website. More than 100 individuals, groups, and organizations have been honored for practicing or advocating for traditional art forms in the state.
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FOLKFabulous celebrates those award-winners and the folk arts they practice.
The event is sponsored in part by the Humanities CouncilSC, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Lexington Medical Center.
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