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Cultural Festivals - Tennessee

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Townsend Fall Festival; image by Jeaneane Payne


Cordell Hull Folk Festival
Enjoy bluegrass and gospel music, old fashion dress, storytelling, arts and crafts, handcrafted gifts, clogging and visit the modest log cabin birthplace of the famous Cordell Hull, Father of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize Winner. There is food, music, and fun throughout the day at the Cordell Hull Folk Festival. It is held in Byrdstown, Tennessee. A children's area features: Children's Hay Maize, Corn Shuck Doll Making, and Petting Zoo.



Cherohala Skyway Festival
Highlights of the Cherohala Skyway Festival are mountain music, southern foods, handmade crafts, and original art of talented craftsmen and artisans. Exhibits include working antique engines, antique tractors, an antique lawn mowers. Pioneer demonstrations include weaving, pottery wheel throwing, general wood carving, carving & playing Native American flutes, blacksmithing, corn shelling, corn meal grinding with a Grist Mill, rope pulling, old time salve making in an iron pot, fly fishing demonstrations & lessons, BMTA's cross cut saw demonstrations, and MC Beekeeping Assoc observation bee hives & antique bee keeping equipment.



Cherokee Fall Festival
The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, Tennessee’s only tribally owned museum, hosts an annual Cherokee Fall Festival. Visitors will have the opportunity to step back in time to experience food, Cherokee arts and crafts demonstrations, music and dance. A blacksmith will be doing on-site demonstrations in the shop both days. Other demonstrations and displays will include Cherokee life in 1700’s and a Civil War encampment. The event is held in Vonore.



Covered Bridge Festival
The Doe River Covered Bridge in Elizabethton spans 134 feet across Doe River. The 124-year-old white-painted bridge stands as this picturesque city’s main attraction. The Covered Bridge Celebration brings East Tennessee to life in downtown Elizabethton. Entering the hometown of the “Queen of the Doe;” will enlighten all festival goers to come and enjoy her 53rd year celebration including live music from various artists, homemade crafts and décor, and some of the most fabulous food you will ever taste in the hills of the Appalachia.



CultureFest
Located on the beautiful Tennessee River at Coolidge Park in Chattanooga, TN, the Arts & Education Council hosts CultureFest. Celebrate the rich diversity of the city and region with music, dance, storytelling, children's activities, interactive booths and demonstrations, food and drink.



Dollywood's Festival of Nations™
Celebrate cultural traditions at the Festival of Nations™ multi-cultural spring festival. Enjoy international music from the world’s best musicians. Journey 'round the globe without leaving the Smoky Mountains when you visit Dollywood's Festival of Nations - a six-week international music festival celebrating music, dance, art and food from around the world.  Enjoy more than 200 international performers with seven first-time and five returning groups of entertainers, including the best dancers, singers, musicans and acrobats! Experience Festival of Nations in Pigeon Forge.



Indian Education Powwow and Fall Festival
This three-day educational pow wow & fall festival offering you the opportunity to personally experience the culture and spirit of the American Indian people. The Annual Indian Education Pow Wow & Arts Exhibition attracts people from all over the state of Tennessee and the United States. Each October, Indians of different Nations gather to share part of their culture. This spirited event is not just for the reunion of family and friends, but for anyone who would like to witness and join in the celebration of the culture that is nurtured by some 25,000 Indians who call Tennessee home today. Treat yourself to the delights of traditional native food. The festival is held in Nashville.



Native American Festivals
Celebrate Native American heritage at a Tennessee Native American festival.




Sycamore Shoals Celtic Festival
The festival began in Jonesborough in 1996 and moved to Sycamore Shoals in 2000 where it could be held for two days rather than one. We treasure our heritage in the Appalachian Mountains and those who claim Celtic ancestry yearn to know more. It is the desire of the Sycamore Shoals Celtic Festival to share living, belonging and life with all kindred Celtic spirits through food, fun and frolic.



Townsend Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day
The festival, held annually the last weekend in September, celebrates mountain culture, including bluegrass music, Appalachian arts and crafts demonstrations, storytelling and the natural beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains. Throughout the day on Friday there are arts and crafts demonstrations, bluegrass music, book signings, cakewalks, bake sale, arts and crafts booths, pony rides, Appalachian skill demonstrations, including flaxing and spinning, mountain berry basket making and poetry, chair caning, beehive observation, lye soap making, corn shuck doll making, apple butter making, blacksmith, rug hooking, cornmeal making, moonshine still (no sampling) and "rivin" shakes, and sorghum molasses making. A themed basket auction is held on Friday afternoon. On Saturday, the same activites are scheduled along with mountain storytelling on the front lawn and an antique tractor and engine show - all in beautiful Townsend, TN.

   

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