The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance
Spring Festival: April 19-22, 2012
A music lovers’ paradise, Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival is a family-friendly celebration of music, dance, art, & education. 4 days, 4 stages, & over 60 bands in beautiful, green Chatham County!
It is spring! It is 2012! Change is in the air. Time is moving all around us. What do we do? On our Facebook page, we asked people, “What is your favorite thing about the festival?” Our friends said such wonderful things, but most spoke of the dancing: watching people dance or dancing themselves. Dancing is a language that we all speak, that we as humans have spoken since time’s beginning. It brings us close to the earth, caressing it with our feet, and it brings us close to the heavens as we celebrate all that they have to offer. Dancing can be sleek, professional, and beautiful, but just as beautiful when it’s unpracticed and spontaneous, to the music on the stage or the music in our souls.
Time and change can be scary and confusing. We don’t always know what they will bring. But despite it all, we dance! We are looking forward to dancing with all of you this spring.
The lyrics to a song called “What is Time?” by one of this Spring’s performers, Elephant Revival, say it in a great way:
Even Einstein says,
“Time is not a condition in which we live
It’s a condition in which we think,”
and we can change the ways we think…
But the question remains,
Well, what is time?
It’s when the sun comes up, the sun goes down
The moon comes out, and people dance all around.
So, let’s dance under the sun, under the moon, in spite of and into time and change, just move to the music and celebrate life! We’ll do it together.
Other Shakori Hills and GrassRoots News…
GrassRoots Miami!
We were so honored to welcome the newest addition to the GrassRoots family, The Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance at the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park in Miami, Florida, February 9-12, 2012!
The Miami skies decided to welcome us with quite the downpour, but a beautiful rainbow cleared the way, finally, and we all had a wonderful time! Thank you so much to all the people who worked so hard to make our new festival happen: festival staff, volunteers, friends from Finger Lakes and Shakori Hills, local Miami bands and friends, Virginia Key Beach Park, and Miami, the city, herself. We had a fabulous time and we can’t wait to do it again next February!
Our festivals…
Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance – July 19-22, 2012
Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention – Sept. 13-15, 2012
Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance – Oct. 4-7, 2012