Music & Dance
Visitors to Mountain Heritage Day will find three stages of traditional old-time, gospel, and bluegrass music and dance, with plenty of clogging and fiddle and banjo music. Festival-goers are invited to join in workshops at the Circle Tent and shape-note singing. Shape-note singers come from across the Southeast to take part in one of the mountains’ most sacred traditions.
Crafts, Food & Fun
The Mountain Heritage Day arts and crafts area offers juried, handmade items ranging from woodwork and pottery to paintings, jewelry, and quilts. Food booths feature fare such as ham biscuits, churned ice cream, lemonade, barbeque, Cherokee Frybread, fried green tomatoes, Kettle Corn, beans, cornbread, and the like.
The festival also includes hayrides, Cherokee stickball games, and several just-for-fun competitions, including a Chainsaw Contest, Antique Car show, Costume Contests, Beard and Moustache Contest, and Baked Goods and Canning contest. Demonstartions of folk arts and skills will be going on from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and a great addition is our Children's Tent, with activities for kids all day long.
Close parking at Mountain Heritage Day is limited, but shuttle services are available. Special parking is available to those with physical disabilities.
Bring your blanket or chair and make sure to wear comfortable shoes.
No pets allowed on festival grounds, but service animals are welcome.
Mountain Heritage Day is held outside, rain or shine. For more information about the festival, call (828)
227-7129.
Lodging and other tourist information is available by calling the Jackson County Travel
& Tourism Authority at (800) 962-1911, or visiting http://www.mountainlovers.com/.
Photos: Top - A clogger keeps time at MHD 2007.
Bottom - Festivalgoers take a turn at a samp mill for grinding corn.
