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Registration (Online Registration)
If you would like
a copy of the 2005 quilt show catalog (the catalog does not include
photographs), send your name and address along with $2.00 for shipping
and handling to the Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, P. O. Box 1000,
Ferrum, Virginia 24088. Click here for Activities for 4th Grade Standards of Learning
Festival visitors delight in an unmatched presentation of old-time customs and competitions. The Institute chooses participants for their authenticity, making the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival Virginia's largest showcase of regional traditions.
Restored automobiles and farm machines on display tell of the merging of Blue Ridge folk culture and industrial technology through the past century, while the festival horse pull and coon dog competitions highlight the ongoing skills of working animals and their handlers. For nearly three decades the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival has been an entertaining and educational introduction to local folkways and the remarkable people who carry on those traditions. The Blue Ridge Folklife Festival is held annually on the fourth Saturday in October from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is charged. |
Each fall the campus of
Ferrum College transforms itself into a one-day celebration of living regional traditions.
The New York Times calls the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival "thoroughly
authentic," and the event has twice been named one of the "Top Twenty Events in the
Southeast" by the Southeast Tourism Society.
Performers on three stages entertain
listeners with the rich balladry, blues, gospel singing, and string band music for which
the Blue Ridge is so well known. Dozens of folk artisans demonstrate their hand skills and
sell crafts of home and farm, and antique and contemporary quilts are displayed in the
Mountain Comforts Quilt Show. Hungry visitors sample dozens of regional old-time foods--no
hot dogs or hamburgers here!