Everybody Loves Maako

02/07/2024

Applications are open for the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) 3rd Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship! This fellowship provides six $5,000 awards to support culture bearers and practitioners who research, examine, perform, develop, and document Black Appalachian storytelling traditions in the Appalachian Regional Commission designated counties of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Fellows will also receive funds to attend the "In the Tradition..." 42nd Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference in October.

Apply by Thursday, August 22nd at: https://ecs.page.link/E1vMM

📸: Fellows at the 2024 Appalachian Studies Association conference. Credit: Joel Chapman.

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This Saturday at 5pm!
Boonerang

10/06/2024

Can’t wait to start editing during the fall semester’

IBMA Foundation
Appalachian Studies

31/05/2024

Happy birthday Dr. Jim Fogelquist!

23/05/2024

I’m on the minimalist side, and fortunately documentaries are not like those massive film productions that have a significant environmental impact. But we could do better in Appalachia.
How? Minimizing the transportation, crew, and equipment to remote locations or multiple times. This will help to reduce fuel consumption.
Filming and editing consumes electricity. Yndiana Montes Fogelquist works with natural lighting and carries minimal equipment. “If you’re sure about your storytelling techniques, how to make people talk, and of the story you’re working on, it is not necessary to generate a lot of waste. I printed my script once and divided my short documentary in parts so I was sure of what came before and after. Last but not least, I planned our food intake. No disposable dishes or cups. I took my healthy food and beverage with me all the time.”

22/05/2024

Cece! Our beloved professor Dr. Cece Conway!

It's gonna be another pretty day today! Check this out:
"African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia" by Cecelia Conway (1995, The University of Tennessee Press)
Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont—among the last American representatives of an African banjo-playing tradition that spans several centuries—Conway reaches beyond the written records to reveal the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns, improvisational playing styles, and the accompanying singing and dance movements to traditional West African music performances. The author then shows how Africans had, by the mid-eighteenth century, transformed the lyrical music of the gourd banjo as they dealt with the experience of slavery in America.

19/05/2024

The podcast about Everybody Loves Maako by
Yndiana Montes Fogelquist

Takahiro Omori was the second Japanese student to enroll in Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University. In Part Two of “Everybody Loves Maako” pod...

17/05/2024

We’re happy to announce that Everybody Loves Maako is going to be shown for the third time in the Appalachian Theatre. The unique Boonerang Festival is having a Saturday Film Fest on June 15th and Yndiana Montes Fogelquist will be there.

17/05/2024

The Mountain Minor!!! Directed by Dale Farmer, this film shows how Appalachian music plays a crucial role in unifying a family across generations.
Music composed by: Trevor McKenzie.

17/05/2024

The Loose Roosters hit the stage for their hometown festival at Boonerang this June!

The concept of Boonerang is something different for the guys from Loose Roosters, all four of whom made western Watauga their home, and never found a reason to leave. Playing original roots rock and revamped outlaw country, the Roosters add a distinct Appalachian flavor to their music – something a little gritty and unrefined, but entirely genuine and relatable. Add in a few rooster motifs and undo an extra shirt button or two, and you’ve a got a quintessentially Boone-feeling band.

With performances at the Jones House Summer Concerts, Sugar Grove Music Festival, and Music in the Valle, not to mention all the restaurants, breweries, and other venues they frequent, the Loose Roosters are one of the hardest-gigging bands in the area. Plus, they’ve got a highly-anticipated performance upcoming this week at the Appalachian Theatre this week on May 2, as a part of the Local Night series – Plug: be sure the get your tickets to get a nice preview of what to expect at Boonerang.

If you’re hankering for some good downhome music from people who live, work, and play right here in Boone, look no further than the Loose Roosters at the Boonerang Music & Arts Festival!

17/05/2024

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17/05/2024

“Estoy feliz de haber completado mis estudios de postgrado en Estudios Apalaches en la Appalachian State University”, exclamó nuestra editora Yndiana Montes Fogelquist ayer después del acto del “hooding”.

09/05/2024

¡Atención!
Se necesitan voluntarios bilingües para Boonerang, el festival por excelencia de los amantes de Boone para el mundo. Este año habrá una gran tarima multicultural y otros espacios que nos representarán a los hispanoparlantes, en las que habrá desde música brasileña hasta mariachis.
💯🕺💃🏽🎶
Interesados favor contactar a la Coordinadora de Voluntarios del Festival de Música y Artes Boonerang, Sra. Dona Dowlan a través de su dirección electrónica
[email protected]

Y gracias en el nombre de todxs

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08/05/2024

High Country Humanities is proud to announce three fun, educational events this summer that will be free and open to the public!

On 6/2 at 10am, we will host a theatre retreat at Camp Broadstone on “Portraying Indigenous Peoples.” A meal and transportation will be provided; advanced registration is required. The featured guest speaker will be Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, novelist and enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

On 7/29 at 1pm, public history experts will give free guided tours of the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum, including views of restored log cabins.

On 8/09 at 7pm, Dr. Katherine Ledford will give remarks on “Stereotypes of Mountaineers and Frontiersmen” prior to a performance of Horn in the West at the Daniel Boone Amphitheater.

For details, visit hchumanities.appstate.edu.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of a grant from North Carolina Humanities.

College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University | Horn in the West Outdoor Drama and Hickory Ridge History Museum | Lees-McRae Summer Theatre | Department of English at Appstate | Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies | Appalachian State University Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

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