Join the Enka-Candler Library for their summer music series “History of WNC/Appalachian Music.”
The library will be featuring musicians and special guests to take you on musical trips around Western North Carolina with a splash of history mixed in! Join in for an hour of music along with 30 minutes of historical tidbits, photos, and fun facts from archivists and librarians during set breaks.
The Asheville Dulcimer Orchestra will be playing a range of Southern Appalachian to classical music and is led by Mack Johnston. What is a Dulcimer? Due in large part to its popularity during the folk music revival, the mountain dulcimer, also called lap dulcimer, is one of the instruments most readily associated with Southern Appalachia. Millions were introduced to the instrument’s gentle sound by Jean Ritchie and Frank Proffitt of Watauga County, North Carolina. The mountain dulcimer is usually played across one’s lap, noting or chording with the left hand and strumming the three or four strings with the right.
To hear what it sounds like and see what it looks like, join for this free program on Saturday, June 24, 2023, at 4:00 pm! The program takes place in the library community room at Enka and is in partnership with Buncombe County Special Collections.
Next month in the Appalachian music series, the library will host Honky Tonk Family Social Night featuring Hearts Gone South bringing us classic-style county music. Stay tuned for more details!
The Enka-Candler Library is located at 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler.
Written by Buncombe County.