2017 Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival - N.A. - (Young Harris, GA)
The festival showcases the art of Southern storytelling with a particular focus on Appalachian stories, both traditional and contemporary. The GMSF offers storytelling and musical performances, children's events, and workshops so that community members, visitors from afar, and students of all ages will not only learn about the tradition and history of our region through storytelling, but also have the opportunity to become part of its preservation. FEATURED TELLERS Cherokee teller and author Lloyd Arneach (www.arneach.com) Cuban American teller and children's author Carmen Agra Deedy (www.carmenagradeedy.com) African American teller and historical character interpreter Sheila Arnold Jones (www.mssheila.org) West Virginia humorist, teller, and author Bil Lepp (www.leppstorytelling.com) Folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon (www.folkmusic.com) We will also have terrific stories from panels of local tellers, stories just for children, a beautiful quilt display
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