
{"id":1058,"date":"2007-10-11T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/10\/11\/shakori-hills-ready-for-four-days-of-music-and-more\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T06:31:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T14:31:31","slug":"shakori-hills-ready-for-four-days-of-music-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/10\/11\/shakori-hills-ready-for-four-days-of-music-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakori Hills ready for four days of music and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance comes to Chatham County today (Thursday) and will last through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Festival worker Chris Tate has been with the festival since its origins. He calls the music \u00e2\u20ac\u0153danceable. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s danceable international roots music.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rootsy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kid-friendly events include facepainting, storytelling, clogging and a Paperhand Puppet Intervention show.<br \/>\nA biodiesel bus will ferry attendees to and from Carrboro, Durham and Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The festival started in\u00c2\u00a0 2003, and in 2006 the Shakori Hills nonprofit was started to raise money to build a community center for arts and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an organization formed for the preservation of this farm as a community arts and educational center,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tate explains, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re here for the community. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re here to help build community.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Recommended acts? Tate says to check out The Duhks and Oliver Mtukudzi &amp; The Black Spirits.<br \/>\nDirect your Internet toward shakorihills.org for ticket information and complete schedules. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dJack Carley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}