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Augusta Heritage Center, 21 Third Street, Elkins, WV (2025)

04/24/2025

Experience Augusta this summer with our flagship Summer Heritage Workshops. Don't miss the Early Bird pricing, which ends May 1st. Register today!

See augustaartsandculture.org/2025-immersive-programs for more info and registration.

04/23/2025

ANNOUNCING: Ben Nelson! Ben will be joining us at Augusta Old-Time Week 2025, teaching two classes called "Beginning Clawhammer Banjo" & "Old-Time Jam Lab."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/old-time-week-2025

Ben Nelson grew up in a family of old-time musicians in the mountains of southwest Virginia. A passionate educator and community builder, he has worked as an elementary school science instructor, naturalist, traditional music teacher, and square dance caller. Ben has taught music and dance at Warren Wilson College, the Junior Appalachian Musicians program, and traditional music camps throughout the U.S. He was a founding member of the prize-winning string band The Moose Whisperers, and studied traditional music abroad as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.

04/22/2025

After our last post celebrating Ed Poullard being named a 2025 NEA National Heritage Fellow, Lynne Terr, an integral part of Augusta's Cajun Week for years, sent us these amazing photos of Ed! We thought they were too good not to share. Congratulations again to Ed and thank you to Lynne for the pics!

04/22/2025

ANNOUNCING: Joan Fenton! Joan will be joining us at Augusta Blues Week 2025, teaching two guitar classes called "Blues Guitar" & "Moveable Chords: Playing Blues Guitar Up the Neck."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/blues-week-2025

Joan Fenton has worked as a musician, folklorist, and business woman. She is the recipient of the WC Handy award for keeping the blues alive in education. She produced traditional music shows for 15 years for various radio stations and received two National Endowment for the Arts grants to record traditional musicians. Her field recordings can be found at the D&E Library and in the Joan Fenton collection at the University of NC at Chapel Hill library. Her work with nonprofits includes serving on the executive board of the Folk Alliance.

04/22/2025

Join Us for Augusta’s Next Community Sing!

Gather with us in Elkins City Park for our next Augusta Community Sing—an evening of shared songs, open hearts, and joyful voices. Whether you love to sing or just enjoy being surrounded by harmony, all are welcome!

04/21/2025

ANNOUNCING: Sarah Larsen! Sarah will be joining us at Augusta Bluegrass Week 2025, teaching a special kids program called the "Bluegrass Kids Academy."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/bluegrass-week-2025

Sarah Larsen is a multi-faceted teacher and musician. Originally from Wisconsin, she grew up playing classical music with her pianist mother and sister. Her formative years were spent at Lawrence University, the Walnut Hill School, the New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Division, and the University of Hartford’s Hartt School on full scholarship. College introduced her to alternative styles including a run with string quartet Vox4 that led to Carnegie Hall; Americana rock string trio, Little Ugly; and premiering Gary Tomasetti’s Violin Concerto written specifically for her. Refusing to be defined by labels or genres, Sarah is equally at home in a jazz jam, a bluegrass pick, or an orchestral setting. She has spent over 30 years learning to communicate with musicians of all levels and styles, and has dedicated her life to helping others achieve satisfaction and joy through music.

04/20/2025

ANNOUNCING: Cassidy Dickens! Cassidy will be teaching a songwriting class called "Songtelling: How to Spin Your Stories Into Song" during Week 2 of Augusta's Summer Workshops.

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/craft-classes-2025

Marrying a powerful sense of traditional Appalachian storytelling with a modern folk sound, West Virginian artist Cassidy Dickens brings a “unique fusion of vulnerability, resilience, unguarded sincerity, and soul-stirring melodies” to the world of acoustic Americana. (HONK MAGAZINE)

Soon after releasing her debut album, Ghosts, in 2015, Cassidy made the leap from small-town West Virginia to Music City, where she cut her teeth collaborating with up-and-coming Nashville recording artists and earned a Josie Music Award nomination for her songwriting.

Today—with more than 15 years of touring, 7 years of professional songwriting, three full-length albums, and several songwriting awards under her belt—she’s thrilled to be back at home in the Mountain State.

Her newest album, All I’m Missing, was inspired by the story of her journey back home, with songs that call back to the people and places that first inspired her music career.

04/19/2025

ANNOUNCING: Jefferson Hamer! Jefferson will be joining us at Augusta Vocal Week 2025, teaching two classes about ballads and guitar work called "Child Ballads in Three-Part Harmony" & "Basic Guitar Techniques for Folk Singers."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/vocal-week-2025

Jefferson Hamer is a guitarist, songwriter, traditional musician, and producer of studio recordings. He is best known for his collaborations with Anais Mitchell (Child Ballads, recipient of a BBC2 Folk Award), Sarah Jarosz (as guitarist and harmony singer on her Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite), Session Americana, and other solo artists including Kristin Andreassen, Reed Foehl, and Laura Cortese. His original songs are featured on his self-released albums and singles, including the full-length Alameda. Perhaps his most enduring collaboration is The Murphy Beds, a harmony-rich folk duo with Irish musician and songwriter Eamon O’Leary, featuring a self-titled LP and the follow-up Easy Way Down.

04/18/2025

ANNOUNCING: Kelli Jones! Kelli will be joining us at both Augusta Cajun & Classic Country Week 2025, teaching two classes called "Intermediate Cajun Fiddle" & "Songs of Lefty Frizzell."

Read more:
augustaartsandculture.org/cajun-creole-week-2025
augustaartsandculture.org/classic-country-week-2025

Kelli has been playing fiddle since the age of fifteen and started out playing old time music in North Carolina, where she is from. In 2006 she moved to Lafayette, Louisiana to study dance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and learn Cajun fiddle as well. She has been living in Lafayette since, soaking up the culture and touring the world with Lafayette’s own powerhouse psychedelic Cajun band, Feufollet and her fellow band mates Drew Simon and Megan Constantin. She has also traveled beyond Louisiana to perform and teach at festivals throughout the United States and Canada, including Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp, Augusta Heritage Center Cajun & Creole week, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, and Centrum’s Voiceworks.

04/18/2025

SQUARE DANCE TONIGHT!
Take shelter from those April showers with a good ol' fashioned square dance! ⛈🎻

The Elkins Barn Dance Collective's next dance will be tonight, Friday, April 18th!

Time: 7PM - 9PM

Location: The Arts Center, 2 Park St., Elkins

Caller: Lou Maiuri

Band: Doug Van Gundy & Friends

Admission: General - $10 / Students & AmeriCorps - $5 / Kids 12 & Under - Free!

04/17/2025

ANNOUNCING: Michelle Brown! Michelle will be joining us at Augusta Cajun & Creole Week 2025, teaching a cooking class called "Cajun Cooking."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/cajun-creole-week-2025

I was born and raised in rural South Louisiana on a farm and I learned to cook at an early age. My mom was a homemaker and cooked 3 meals everyday. I watched and learned from her the ways of Cajun cooking. My culture is known for our great food and where there is food there are many friends. We talk about our next meal while we are eating the one we just prepared. I also like to bake and some of my pastries are served fresh at the local coffee shop downtown Eunice, LA. I am a retired school bus operator of 25 years service to rural schools in Acadia Parish. In my spare time I do sewing and alterations for the public. My passion for sewing began at the age of 9 and is a joyful hobby. Both of my girls wore wedding gowns designed by them and I fashioned the gowns to their unique specifications! I have since taken on quilting and old fashioned tatting. My husband Greg and I have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Our 2 youngest children Megan Brown Constantin and Briggs Brown are both involved in Cajun music and preservation of our Cajun culture and heritage.

I am looking forward to making new friends thru my Cajun cooking demonstration here at Augusta.

04/17/2025

Big congratulations to Edward Poullard on being named a 2025 NEA National Heritage Fellow—the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts!

Edward’s dedication to Creole fiddle, accordion, and the preservation of Louisiana culture is a gift to us all. We were honored to host him as a master artist at Augusta in 2023, where he shared the stage with Blake Miller and Jesse Lége for an unforgettable Cajun & Creole concert.

Thank you, Edward, for your artistry, your mentorship, and your unwavering commitment to tradition. This recognition is so well deserved!

Check the comments for a link to an archive recording of him at Augusta.

04/17/2025

Remember this dreamy guitar weekend from last year??? The 2024 Fingerpicking Guitar Weekend event was our first collaboration with the Tygart Hotel. We can't wait for this year's pickin' & grinnin' throwdown: Flatpicking Guitar Weekend 2025!

Learn more at augustaartsandculture.org/flatpicking-guitar-weekend-2025

04/16/2025

ANNOUNCING: Elizabeth Laprelle! Elizabeth will be joining us at Augusta Old-Time Week 2025, teaching two vocal classes called "Harmony Singing" & "Appalachian Ballads."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/old-time-week-2025

Elizabeth LaPrelle is a scholar and singer of Appalachian Ballads from Rural Retreat, Virginia. She built her style and repertoire from research into archival recordings, and family and friends. She started making recordings with her family as a teen, and received her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary with a major in Southern Appalachian Traditional Performance. In the experimental folk duo Anna & Elizabeth, she toured internationally and helped re-popularize the “crankie” performance art form. She’s also a banjo-player, and a visual and interdisciplinary artist. She lives with her husband Brian Dolphin and their young son.

04/15/2025

ANNOUNCING: Hubby Jenkins! Hubby will be joining us at both Augusta Blues & Old-Time Week 2025, teaching two classes called "Blind Willie Johnson 101" & "Leveling Up Banjo."

Read more:
augustaartsandculture.org/blues-week-2025
augustaartsandculture.org/old-time-week-2025

Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn he delved into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby got his higher musical education started as a busker. He developed his guitar and vocal craft on the sidewalks and subway platforms of New York City, performing material by those venerable artists whose work he was quickly absorbing. An ambitiously itinerant musician, he took his show on the road, playing the streets, coffee shops, bars, and house parties of cities around the U.S.

After years of busking around the country and making a name for himself, Hubby became acquainted with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops (2010 – 2016), as well as a member of Rhiannon Giddens band. Today he spreads his knowledge and love of old-time American music and history through his dynamic solo performances.

04/14/2025

ANNOUNCING: Grant Flick! Grant will be joining us at Augusta Bluegrass Week 2025, teaching two intermediate mandolin classes called "Making Your Own Chords on the Mandolin" & "Fiddle Tunes/Repertoire."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/bluegrass-week-2025

Grant Flick is a performer, recording artist, composer, and educator currently based in Ann Arbor, MI. He plays violin, mandolin, tenor guitar, nyckelharpa, tenor banjo, viola, and anything else that’s tuned in fifths. Primarily his interests are new acoustic music, jazz manouche, jazz/swing, bluegrass, and American old-time. Grant has received numerous music awards including the 2013 Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin. He was a finalist in the 2015 Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Competition in Winfield, Kansas, as well as the 2017 FreshGrass Fiddle Competition in North Adams, Massachusetts. Additionally, several competitive collegiate awards and grants for improvisation, acoustic chamber music inventiveness, and music education have been presented to his original groups in the past few years. Grant has been selected twice (2015 and 2016) as participant of the Acoustic Music Seminar held at the Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia. He has taught workshops at numerous camps throughout America including Augusta Bluegrass Week, Charm City Django Fest, the Tenor Guitar Gathering, and River of the West Mandolin Camp. Grant also tours and performs regularly and has played at many music festivals including Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, ROMP Fest, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and the Savannah Music Festival. Frank Vignola, Mike Marshall, Julian Lage, and Darol Anger are just some of the notable musicians with whom Grant has appeared on stage.

04/13/2025

ANNOUNCING: Woody Woodcock! Woody will be teaching a screen printing class called "Screenprinting: Exploring Multiples" during Week 3 of Augusta's Summer Workshops.

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/craft-classes-2025

Kevin M. Woodcock was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City. After high school he traveled to West Virginia to visit a friend and was attracted to the mountainous beauty of the state. Kevin moved to Morgantown where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from West Virginia University. He met his wife, Mel, in Elkins through mutual friends. Kevin and Mel moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Painting at Louisiana State University. They moved back to West Virginia in 1989 and currently live in Elkins. Kevin creates his visual artworks at his home studio and at Davis & Elkins College where he is an Assistant Professor of Art and the Chair of the Creative Art Department. Kevin teaches Beginning Painting, 2D Design, Color Theory, Screen Printing, Intro to Printmaking, Senior Seminar, Senior Studio, Advanced Drawing and Advanced Painting. Kevin also is involved with the ArtsBank program where he is a board member.

A lot of Kevin’s work is inspired by hiking and camping trips in the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia. There is a sense of wonder he experiences that compels him to visually express the emotions he feels at some of these places. He says “When a painting or print is going well I don’t think about my surroundings, I get into the piece as if I were there and lose track of time.” “I am interested in showing the movement of wind, light, water and sound that I experience in nature” Kevin says.” The phenomena of the natural environment intrigues me. When I was young the wilderness seemed like a place of mystery and adventure. This sense of mystery and adventure is still with me when I am creating artwork.” Kevin works in the mediums of screen, block and monoprinting as well as acrylic painting.

04/12/2025

ANNOUNCING: Bob Walser! Bob will be joining us at Augusta Vocal Week 2025, teaching two classes about maritime tunes and sea shanties called "Other Soggy Worksongs – Maritime Worksongs That Aren’t Shanties and Forebitters" & "Shanties and Forebitters – Worksongs from Tall Ships."

Read more at augustaartsandculture.org/vocal-week-2025

Musician, scholar and educator Bob Walser’s musical career spans decades and continents. In the early 1980s he made his living as a shantyman at Mystic Seaport, one of the largest maritime museums in the USA. Since then he has presented Folklore In Action folk music and dance programs as an artist-in-residence in schools across the USA, and performed as a singer, dance leader and dance musician from Maine to California and overseas.

As a scholar, Bob earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. His research in Folk Music and Music Education has been published in the Folk Song Journal (UK) and publications by World Music Press. Since 2002 he has worked with an international team of scholars on the James Madison Carpenter folksong collection in a project based at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In addition, he has three CDs on The Old and New Tradition label to his credit as well as guest appearances on another dozen recordings in the US, France and England.

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