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The Black Banjo Gathering Reunion 2010 is coming! For the latest updates, go to: english.appstate.edu.
From March 23 to March 28, banjoists, scholars, old time, traditional jazz, and blues musicians will hold a Black Banjo Gathering Reunion at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Concerts, workshops, jams, panel discussions, dancing, lectures and frolics will commemorate the historic 2005 Black Banjo Gathering that gathered hundreds at the same site in April 2005. The Farthing Auditorium concert will be Wednesday, March 24th at 7:30p.m. (doors open at 6:30). Tickets: $10/$20 in advance (while tickets last) $12/$25 at the door. For tickets call Farthing Auditorium at 1-800-841- 2787, or visit www.farthing.appstate.edu.
Want to see what happened 5 years ago? Go here.
The Reunion will feature lectures, workshops, concerts panels, films, outreach sessions to Appalachian State students and to the surrounding communities. Participants already secured include Tony Thomas, Cece Conway, Mark Freed, Rhiannon Giddens, Don Vappie, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Cheick Hamala Diabate, Corey Harris, the Ebony Hillbillies, Otis Taylor, Jerron Paxton, Joan Dickerson, Hubby Jenkins, John Cohen, Alice Gerard, Clarke Buehling, James Leva, Riley Baugus, Pete Ross, Andy Cohen, Art Rosenbaum, Greg Adams, Rick Ward, Gail Gillespie, the Dust Busters, Mebanairs, George Gibson, Rich Kirby, Doug Dorschug, Rusty Blanton, Tom Hansell, Dr. Laurent Dubois, Dr. Afi-Odelia Scruggs, Paul Sedgwick, Jim Lloyd, Trevor McKenzie, and Steve Kruger. Also planning to come on Friday is the last family tradition Black fiddler, Mebane, North Carolina's Joe Thompson, a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow who provided so much inspiration, wisdom, and good singing and music at the 2005 Gathering.
The 2010 Black Banjo Gathering Reunion is made possible by a grant to the Center for Appalachian Studies of Appalachian State University from the National Endowment for the Arts written by project director Cece Conway. Additional support has come from the Appalachian Heritage Council, the English Department of Appalachian State University, the Center for Appalachian Studies, Women's Studies, Honors, University College, and Academic Affairs of Appalachian State University; Watauga Arts Council, Mark Freed, Folklorist; Blue Ridge Folklife Institute of Boone, NC; Duke University Center for French and Francophone Studies; Charlotte Folk Society; the Avery County Arts Council; the Ashe County Arts Council, Alleghany JAM, and Richard T. Barker Friends of the University Library; and others.
Your support to the Black Banjo Gathering Reunion is urgently needed. If you wish to contribute, please contact Prof Cece Conway (conwayec@email.unc.edu) and send gifts to ASU Foundation-- Black Banjo Reunion-- 92522 Attention David Taylor, Dir Dev Arts & Sci & Univ Col IG Greer Hall, Room 201, 400 Academy Street, ASU, Boone, NC 28608.
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