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Save Your Roots

November 19, 2020 by David Dean Leave a Comment

Save Your Roots

For the past 30 years the GrassRoots Festivals have been a part of your family and you have been a part of ours.

We have come together several times a year in the spirit of music, art and community, and what started as a benefit to support AIDS related causes has transformed into an engine for expression, creativity, education and critically weighing the issues of our time in order to create positive change in the community.

This feels like one of these times where all of this matters the most.

As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization we have worked very hard to keep this festival belonging to you, our fans, and each ticket purchased or volunteer hour performed has been instrumental to this mission.

We don’t have large pools of corporate sponsors as we have kept our festival an authentic experience, free from the boundaries of corporate influence. Each donation or ticket has ensured that this remains your festival, and for that the GrassRoots Festival Organization is very grateful for the generations of fans that have come together in this spirit.

Now, for the first time since the festival began 30 years ago, with an entire year of GrassRoots Festivals postponed, we need your support more than ever.

In order to raise the $100,000 needed to prepare for the 2021 season, the GrassRoots Festivals are bringing the spirit and essence of GrassRoots to your living room with Save Your Roots, a live stream event from the State Theatre in Ithaca, NY on Saturday, December 19, 2020.

So please save the date and help us launch the GrassRoots Festivals into the next 30 years by joining your GrassRoots Family to Save Your Roots.

Donate to Save Your Roots

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, Fundraising Events, News Tagged With: covid, fingerlakes, GrassRoots, live stream, Music Festival, nonprofit, save your roots, shakori hills, virginia key

Fall 2020 Festival Cancelled

July 13, 2020 by David Dean 6 Comments

Photo by Jeremy Gilchrist

Pittsboro, North Carolina, July 13, 2020 – The 17th Annual Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All tickets purchased for the event, originally scheduled to host the Del McCoury Band, Rising Appalachia, Donna the Buffalo and many others October 8 through 11, 2020, will be honored at the next festival.

“Despite the beautiful summer weather, we encourage music lovers everywhere to wear masks and stay socially distant so we can enjoy the simple things in life again, like dancing with friends at Shakori Hills,” said Carol Woodell, board president.

The biannual festival, held every spring and fall, is the largest program for the non-profit Shakori Hills Community Arts Center. The Center provides low-cost to no-cost music, art, and sustainability education in the North Carolina counties of Chatham, Orange, and Durham.

Woodell continued, “We are putting the pieces together to host a virtual festival October 8 through 11. This will be a programmatic fundraiser for the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center. We are working on the details and will have a formal announcement of the schedule at a later date.”

Donations to Shakori Hills Community Arts Center can be made via PayPal on www.shakorihills.org or via the blue donate button on the SHCAC Facebook page.

Festival questions can be submitted to shakorihills@grassrootsfest.org.

 

 

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, News Tagged With: cancellation, fall 2020 festival, GrassRoots, Music Festival, ncmusic, north carolina music, north carolina music festival, pittsboro, shakori hills, shakori hills community arts center, shcac

Show Shakori Some Love

May 7, 2020 by Shakori Hills Leave a Comment

Grove Stage
Photography by: Madelyn Matthews

The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is a nonprofit festival which benefits the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center (SHCAC). 

The spring and fall GrassRoots Festivals are easily the largest drivers of revenue for SHCAC with the spring bringing in roughly double the amount of benefit to the center.

Due to the cancellation of the Spring 2020 festival the programs and festival are in jeopardy. We need your support to help keep them going.

The SHCAC hosts music workshops and classes throughout the year as well as programs in schools. Programs like the Junior Appalachian Musicians, Roots in the Schools, Hoppin’ John, and the GrassRoots Festival will be impacted by the quarantine associated with the coronavirus.

SHCAC is a nonprofit in good standing with the Secretary of State of NC and enjoys a Gold rating from Guidestar, the world’s largest source of nonprofit information, for it’s transparency.   

The SHCAC brings so much joy to the faces of children and adults alike, and we want it to continue to thrive. Most of the classes offered by SHCAC are low-cost and no-cost programs for children in rural areas of the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Please help us continue the mission of SHCAC to provide culturally significant arts, music and sustainability education and outreach to our local community and schools, while preserving the greenspace of the 72-acre Chatham County homestead.

Even if you can only give a little bit, it will go a long way. 

Below are some ways you can support the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, the presenting organization of the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance:

1) You can donate via PayPal using this link.

2) Set SHCAC as your preferred nonprofit on smile.amazon.com and remember to log-in via that link when you do all your Amazon shopping. 

This website works the same as Amazon and has all the same products as Amazon, however, you begin at smile.amazon.com and Amazon donates 0.5% of your purchase to Shakori Hills on eligible products. 

      Amazon Smile Steps: 

  1. Go to https://smile.amazon.com 
  2. Log in 
  3. Type in your Charity/ Organization – Shakori Hills Community Arts Center
  4. Start Shopping!

3) The third way you can help is by spreading the word on social media, for instance:

  1. Sharing our blog posts
  2. Subscribe to the Shakori Sessions Podcast
  3. Share photos and videos of your time at Shakori Hills and tag us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter
  4. Subscribe to the Shakori Hills YouTube Channel and send us your old video links so we can add to our Shakori Hills playlist.

With people working remotely and social distancing more than ever before, it is important to stay together as a community. We can help build the Shakori Hills online community, ensure the future of the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, and spread the Shakori Love!

 

 

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, Fundraising Events, News Tagged With: arts, Bands, chatham county, covid19, Crafters, FestivalFamily, Music Festival, nc, north carolina music, north carolina music festival, pittsboro, shakori, shakori hills, Support, Vendors, workshops

How to Help Our Festival Family

April 21, 2020 by Shakori Hills Leave a Comment

Vendors Tent
Photo by: Elizabeth Larson Photography

The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance would be nothing without its bands and arts and craft persons.

Many of you have asked about how to help support these individuals during this difficult time. 

Bands

Many of the musicians who were slated to play during Spring 2020 have their own websites featuring merchandise and other items for sale.

Visit our Performers Page for links to all the Spring 2020 bands.

As you know, we love to feature North Carolina music on the stages at Shakori Hills. Keep the money local when you support these indie bands on Bandcamp, which is similar to Spotify but all the money goes directly to supporting the artist. 

We also have an official Shakori Hills Spotify Playlist for the Spring 2020 lineup that you can enjoy from home. 

JamBase has launched a calendar of livestreams for everyone to watch while at home. Anyone can add to this community calendar, so if you know of an artist with a livestream, add it and share it. 

Arts and Crafts Vendors

Shakori wouldn’t be the same without unique arts and crafts vendors. Here is a list of the Arts and Craft Vendors who were going to be at the Spring 2020 festival. We are sure your support would mean a great deal to these small businesses in this difficult time.

Consider buying a piece and sending it to a loved one or friend to share a smile or just a simple “thinking of you.” 

AdaArt www.AdaArt.org
Arthur Dyes www.arthurdyes.com
Cabin Girl Designs www.cabingirldesigns.bigcartel.com
Caravanserai Body Care Apothecary www.caravanseraibodycare.com
Daimaris www.facebook.com/daimaris.carmona
Dingles and Things www.facebook.com/dinglesandthings
Earth and Iron Pottery www.facebook.com/earthandironpottery/
For Claudia’s Sayke www.forclaudiassayke.com
Hand Over Heals www.ezhenna.com
Katie Did It www.etsy.com/shop/katiediditglass/
Kcreatable www.facebook.com/kcreatable
K’owino Batiks www.kowinobatiks.com
Landon Fraker Art www.LandonFraker.com
Markextonart www.markextonart.com
Mexica Crafts www.facebook.com/MexicaCrafts
Mountain Metal Arts www.mountainmetalarts.com
New World Glass www.newworldglass.com
Planet Love www.planetlovedesigns.com
Rainey Day Wood Works www.raineydaywoodworks.com
Sacred Wilderness Batiks facebook.com/sacredwildernessbatiks
SPERO Art www.speroart.org
SuddenShrines www.suddenshrines.com
Threelittlebirds Pinecones www.etsy.com/shop/PineConeJewelryShop
Twisted Bliss . www.TwistedBlissDesigns.etsy.com
Venus and Vitriol venusandvitriol.etsy.com

 

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, Performers, Vendors Tagged With: Bands, chatham county, covid19, Crafters, FestivalFamily, Music Festival, nc, north carolina music, north carolina music festival, pittsboro, shakori, shakori hills, Support, Vendors

Spring 2020 Festival Cancellation Announcement

March 15, 2020 by David Dean 9 Comments

Dearest Friends,

The time has come to make a tough decision regarding the 18th Annual Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance.

As you all know, Shakori Hills is a very special place that brings together music and dance fans twice a year to celebrate life and art. Therefore, you know how painful it is to announce the cancellation of the Spring 2020 festival due to the coronavirus.

Carol Woodell, board president of the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center (SHCAC), would like you to know, “In the interest of slowing the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and with particular concern for the health of our festival family, the performers, staff, and our Chatham County community, it is with deep sadness that we are canceling our Spring festival,” said Carol Woodell, board president of the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center.

The SHCAC is also cancelling all other programs until further notice, including all Road to Shakori shows, the Junior Appalachian Musicians classes, and multiple voice and art classes.

Carol said, “We choose to be proactive, given Governor Cooper’s Executive Order and the CDC’s recent recommendation that large events and mass gatherings be cancelled or postponed for the next 8 weeks. While we very much hope life returns to normal by early May, we are mindful of the scientific consensus that unknowns lie ahead. We want to see all of our supporters back healthy and safe in October.”

As previously announced, no ticket refunds will be given, instead SHCAC is waiving the no transfer clause of the purchase agreement.

All tickets and camping passes will be transferred to the fall 2020 festival, happening October 8 – 10.

However, ticket holders who prefer their purchases to be transferred to the Spring 2021 festival (May 6 – 9, 2021) are asked to please complete the online form found on the Tickets page by 5:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, 2020.

Donations to help ensure the continuation of our non-profit festival, and the important mission of the SHCAC to provide music and arts education to underserved communities in the Piedmont, can be made via PayPal on www.shakorihills.org or via the blue donate button the SHCAC Facebook page.

Carol has also made a commitment to everyone who launches a Facebook fundraiser to benefit SHCAC: she will personally donate $25 to every SHCAC fundraiser launched on Facebook.

Festival questions can be submitted to shakorihills@grassrootsfest.org for the quickest response or by calling the office at (919) 542-8142.

Thank you for your understanding and support. We encourage you to stay in touch with us on social media and look forward to seeing you in the fall to celebrate!

Sincerely-

Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival Staff

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, News Tagged With: cancellation, coronavirus, covid-19, Music Festival, pittsboro, shakori, shakori hills, spring 2020, ticket refund, transfer tickets

Del McCoury Headlines 18th Annual Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival

February 10, 2020 by Shakori Hills 2 Comments

Del McCoury Band Promo Photo Spring 2020

Getting antsy about the lineup for the 18th Annual Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance?

Well, wait no longer! We are pleased to announce the full lineup of spring 2020 performers!

As usual, we have a variety of artists coming to perform. However, we are very excited to welcome back the Grammy award-winning Del McCoury Band, their first since 2014. 2020 will mark Del and the Boys fifth performance at Shakori Hills GrassRoots, making them some of Shakori Hills’ elder statesmen.

We strive to offer a unique experience, sure to please all music lovers and will have a mix of new and returning bands.

Rising Appalachia returns for two sets and Keller Williams will bring back his funky good times to the hills of Shakori.

View the full lineup for the Spring 2020 Shakori GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance below or on the Performers page.

Donna The Buffalo, Del McCoury Band, Rising Appalachia, Keller Williams, Lucas Ashby’s Braintrust Feat. Cyro Baptista, Consider the Source, Driftwood, Travers Brothership, Greg Humphreys Electric Trio, Bella’s Bartok, Preston Frank, Dr. Bacon, Empire Strikes Brass, Ellis Dyson and the Shambles, Swamp Kids, Miss Tess and the Talkbacks, Root Shock, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, Loamlands, Downtown Abby & The Echos, Ashley Heath & Her Heathens, Bubba George String Band, brahm, Aaron Lipp, Momma Molasses, Tenzin Chopak, Emily Musolino, Africa Unplugged, Richie Stearns, Onyx Club Boys, T. Gold, Blue Footed Boobies, KidBess and the Magic Ring, Trio 305, Julia., Golden Shoals, West King String Band, Bakalao Stars, The Shoaldiggers, PA Line, Sonny Miles, Cosmic Horizon, Easy Tiger, Bulltown Strutters, Broccoli Brothers Circus, Big Wonderful Variety Show, Wall of Sound, Dr. Fruit, Shakori JAM, Compost Theatre, Ecstatic Dance

Be on the lookout for featured bands in upcoming blogs. In the meantime, check out the Spring ‘20 Shakori Hills Spotify playlist for a pre-festival warmup.

We can’t wait to see everyone. Until then, keep jamming.

#ShakoriHills

Shakori Spring 2020 Full Band List

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, News, Performers Tagged With: del mccrouy band, donna the buffalo, GrassRoots, keller williams, Music Festival, nc, nc music, pittsboro, rising applalachia, shakori hills

Live Band Announcement Sunday

February 6, 2020 by Shakori Hills 2 Comments

Shakori Hills Spring 2020 LivestreamJoin us Sunday as we broadcast a livestream of the full band announcement for the 18th Annual Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance.

The livestream will start at 2:00 p.m. on Facebook and YouTube this February 9 and conclude by 4:00 p.m.

The program will feature performances by Emily Musolino and interviews with Emily Wilhelm, Festival Director, and Scott Mizerak of Foothills Brewing.

Interviews with Jenn Browning, Healing Arts Coordinator, and Pierre Lauffer, Sustainability Coordinator, will provide updates on programming for the spring festival.

The same day, we will release the first Shakori Session with Sierra Ferrell will be released.

Join us live from Circle City Recording studio in Pittsboro this Sunday!

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, News Tagged With: festival, foothills, full band announcement, livestream, Music Festival, pittsboro, shakori, shakori hills, shakori sessions, spring 2020

2020 Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival Dates

October 30, 2019 by David Dean 14 Comments

Shakori Hills banner in the Outpost
photo by Elizabeth Larson

The biannual Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance will be held Thursday, May 7 through Sunday, May 10 and Thursday, October 8 through Sunday, October 11, 2020. These dates will be the 18th annual spring festival and 17th iteration of the fall festival.

Tickets for Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots will be available at the Holiday Rate starting Weds., Nov. 13 at 10:00 a.m. through midnight Tues., Dec. 31, 2019. The Holiday Rate is the lowest ticket rate offered for the spring festival.

Early Bird tickets will be available starting Weds., January 1, 2020 through January 31, 2020 and at that time tickets will increase to Advance Rates. Tickets will be available at the gate starting Monday, May 4, 2020.

Ticket details for the fall festival will be announced at a later date.

Typically, the festival starts the first Thursday in May and October. It just so happens the first Thursday in May, 2020 falls on Mother’s Day weekend.

Therefore, we are going to celebrate moms at the spring festival! There will be a champagne toast on Mother’s Day and we are working on several other programs to say, “thanks, Mom!” More details will be announced as we get closer to the spring festival.

The fall festival in October has been moved back one weekend and will start the second Thursday of the month. This change is due to the way 2020 falls on the calendar.

Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is a non-profit event that benefits the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, itself a non-profit. The Shakori Hills Arts Center provides free or greatly reduced music and arts programs to rural communities in Chatham, Orange, and Durham counties.

The festival takes place on 72 acres outside of Pittsboro that have been described as a, “music lovers’ paradise.” The site accommodates four stages and an average of 50 acts per festival. Recent headlining acts include Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Galactic, and Steve Earle.

More information can be found online at www.shakorihillsgrassroots.org and by searching for the #ShakoriHills hashtag on social media.

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, News Tagged With: 2020, GrassRoots, Music Festival, nc, north carolina, pittsboro, shakori hills, shakori hills 2020

Burn Ban for Fall 2019

September 30, 2019 by David Dean 5 Comments

drum circle fire
photo by David Dean

This post will be updated with any changes throughout the festival.

We are implementing a burn ban for the 16th Annual Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance.

This includes all open flames, such as campfires, Tiki torches, charcoal fires, etc… Gas grills are allowed. Camp Rangers will be enforcing this ban.

Conditions on the property are very dry and we ask that you keep this in mind throughout your stay with us this week.

We know how much the fires add to your festival experience and do not come by this decision lightly. However, given that we have not had significant rainfall in the last 30 days, we feel this decision is the safest for all attendees.

The nightly drum circle fire will continue, but we ask that you not burn at your campsite.

Shakori Hills pocket ashtrayPlease dispose of cigarettes butts properly and do not smoke within 15 feet of festival structures, including buildings, tents, and vendors.

If you need somewhere to store your butts, check out our new pocket ashtray in the merchandise tent.

Not permitted:

  • Open flame burning of any sort
  • Campfires
  • Charcoal grills
  • Tiki torches (FYI: the ground is hard as rocks)

Permitted:

  • Gas grills
  • Votive candles for jack-o-lanterns
  • LEDs / glow sticks

Review our Camping Policies and our Smoke and Fire Tips for additional information.

 

Filed Under: From the Festival Desk, News Tagged With: campfires, fall fire ban, fire ban, Music Festival, pittsboro, shakori hills, shakorihills

Roosevelt Collier: Good Times with Some Swampy Grime

September 11, 2019 by David Dean Leave a Comment

Over the years, Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival has presented many headliners who have brought the thunder, along with a never-ending supply of good times. Yet, never before has Shakori Hills GrassRoots brought a headliner who knew how to bring the party quite like Roosevelt Collier.

Roosevelt has become known as “The Dr.” and an artist at large who brings the sweet sounds of funk with him wherever he goes. His music warrants its own genre of “dirty funk swampy grime,” which is guaranteed to be the cure for whatever ails you.

You can come and groove with Roosevelt Friday, October 4 at 8:30 p.m. on the Meadow Stage. In the meantime, make sure to listen to his album Exit 16, which is available on all major streaming sites.

I chatted with Roosevelt for a couple of minutes on his drive through Florida to his next music destination about his beginnings, his records, and what he is bringing this year to Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival. What followed was a delightful conversation with a genuinely warm and bright individual.

How did you get started playing music?

I guess I was born with it. I was born into a family of music, y’know? Like everybody in my family played music, or went to see shows. I was born into the sound of music. I started playing through family and church.

Were you in the church choir or church band?

Yeah, all of that. Anything that dealt with church was me and my family. I was born and raised out of the church, so y’know all of my family played gospel music and sang in the choir and did all of that good stuff.

From there you also played with the Lee Boys for a while. What was that like?

That’s my family, y’know. That’s what I’m saying, we took what we were doing in church, and just moved it to the music scene. That was fun, it wasn’t nothing different except for us playing at the clubs and the festivals and the arts centers and all of that stuff. Man, that was a good time in my life just playing with my family.


I can’t even imagine how exciting it must’ve been to have that experience with the people you love.

It’s definitely like no other, y’know? You can’t find that bond nowhere else, just because it’s family.

Do you ever play together now?

Very rarely, they are busy and I’m busy so our timing is just not coming together right now.

So last year you came out with Exit 16, what was it like to record and produce that album?

Exit 16 came out under the great label, the GroundUP Label, which is spearheaded by Michael League from Snarky Puppy. Michael also helped to produce and write some of the tunes off of the record. And that was my first solo record, and the process was fully about learning how to make a record, and making some music.

I really want to thank that label and Michael League for just giving me a pair of wings, and just letting me explore my full potential as an artist, y’know? And that record did good! It was my first record and everybody loved it, and I’m so thankful and joyful.

It was a great task, and we all just went in and turned it out. I actually slept in the studio, I was knee deep in the process. We cut that record in about three days, going at about three tracks a day. We were in it. Bobby Sparks on the organ, JT Thomas on the drums, Michael League on bass, and me. And that’s it, man, that’s a wrap.


That sounds exhilarating to spend time in the studio and really turn this album out.

It was so fun! And I mean I guess, for me, I just wanted to be there. I didn’t want to get off track, so I stayed there late at night, woke up in the morning and got right back to it. It was a lot of fun, of course it’s tiresome too, there’s a lot going on with it, but the overall process is amazing and fun.

After finishing the album, you also went on tour with Michael League and the rest of Snarky Puppy. What was that like? 

Oh, man! So I’m thankful for that. Michael League is huge on artists, he cares about artists more than anything in the world, which is very rare with a label, y’know? So they have this platform that allowed their artists to come in and open up for him and be a part of the tour.

Snarky Puppy, they are actually still on tour now, and all of the artists on the label, they give them face on the tour. They give us about 6-8 dates, and it was totally amazing. Every night big shows, big crowds, going on tour on a bus, and to be a part of that whole experience was amazing.

How did touring with Snarky Puppy compare to the Free Energy tour?

Those are two different tours. Me playing with Snarky was a great opportunity for me as their artist on the label to get exposure and just giving us a platform of letting our music be heard.

The Free Energy Tour, it’s a big co-billed tour. I went with another Florida band called the Heavy Pets, we’re friends. And we always talked about doing a tour together, so we decided ‘Let’s just do a co-billed tour together, and let’s name it this, and look to really go out and spread love.’ That’s why you have the Free Energy Tour. That tour there is a great thing, and those guys are a great Florida-based band, the Heavy Pets. We just gotta make sure there’s good music from the great state of Florida.

So you describe your music as ‘dirty funk swampy grime’, how would you describe that?

Y’know my music has been labeled just about everything. And I’m from the south, I’m from Florida, we are from the swamp. We get down and dirty. It’s more like my roots mixed with a lot of southern rock and blues and funk. So to an extent, you’ve got a swampy, dirty blues comin’ to you.

Your music has also been nominated for a couple of honors, starting with you being featured as an artist at this year’s WOMEX (The World Music Expo) in Finland. 

Yes! I’m honored to be able to play WOMEX in October, y’know that’s a very big showcase, that’s one of the world’s biggest showcases. So I’m thankful and glad for that, and I mean I wasn’t expecting it at all, but this opportunity came so I’ve gotta take it, y’know? I am definitely ready for it.

You also were nominated by the 2019 UK Jazz FM Award for Blues Artist of the Year, what was that like?

Man, that was a pretty wild experience too. Just to be nominated for it is great, I wasn’t expecting it at all, not at all. And that helped me out a little bit there too, so man I’m forever thankful for London.

So going forward, what can we expect from your future music? 

We are definitely working on another album, that’s definitely in the mix, and we’re gonna look for the next year to tour real heavy.

I’m already up in the studio working on it, it’s almost halfway done now. This one is definitely different. Where Exit 16 was the story of my life, [it] told the story of who I am, where I’m from, and where I’m going. So this record is gonna be one chapter of my life, which is more of the bluesy swampy stuff. Just because I’m a part of so many genres.

So, at Shakori Hills this year, what can fans expect from you?

Alright, Shakori Hills listen. Y’all better come ready to get down. They know that Rosie don’t play no radio baby. It is going down as soon as we hit the stage, so please come expecting to dance and party.

Filed Under: Artist Highlight, From the Festival Desk, Performers Tagged With: comehearnc, festival, funk, GrassRoots, live music, Music Festival, nc music, north carolina, pittsboro, roosevelt collier, shakori, Shakori GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, shakori hills

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We know it is difficult for our #bands and #vendors during this time. Check out our blog for ways you can support everyone who helps make #ShakoriHills everything that it is! Link Below: shakorihillsgrassroots.org/20…

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