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Shakori Hills ready for four days of music and more

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Staff

Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance comes to Chatham County today (Thursday) and will last through the weekend.

Now in its fourth year, the four-day festival is held on the Shakori Hills farmstead and hosts dozens of performers, dancing, vendors and more.

Festival worker Chris Tate has been with the festival since its origins. He calls the music “danceable. It’s danceable international roots music.”

Acts are impressively varied with Indian and African music side-by-side with reggae, funk, jazz and rock. If the performers were united by one sound, that sound would be “rootsy.”

Kid-friendly events include facepainting, storytelling, clogging and a Paperhand Puppet Intervention show.
A biodiesel bus will ferry attendees to and from Carrboro, Durham and Chapel Hill.

The festival started in  2003, and in 2006 the Shakori Hills nonprofit was started to raise money to build a community center for arts and education.

“It’s an organization formed for the preservation of this farm as a community arts and educational center,” Tate explains, “We’re here for the community. We’re here to help build community.”

Recommended acts? Tate says to check out The Duhks and Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits.
Direct your Internet toward shakorihills.org for ticket information and complete schedules. —Jack Carley

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