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• Stephen Foster Old-Time Music Weekend

  • Start
    September 11, 2020
  •  
    11:00 AM (EDT)
  • End
    September 13, 2020
  •  
    1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

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  Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park will host the 15th Annual Stephen Foster Old-Time Music Weekend on September 11-13, 2020 on the banks of the historic Suwannee River. 

  This three-day event offers participants in-depth instruction in old time music techniques on the banjo, guitar, and fiddle for all levels. Instructors include Chuck Levy, Tommy Bledsoe, Jim Strickland, and The Reed Island Rounders; Kirk Sutphin, Betty Vornbrock, Billy Cornette and Hilary Dirlam.   

  Concerts will be held on Friday and Saturday evenings in the park auditorium at 7:00p.m.  Tickets for public admission are $10.00. Friday evening is the Florida Masters Concert and Saturday evening is the Instructor’s Showcase.

  Registration for the three-day event is $214.00 which includes all workshops, jam sessions, discussion groups, concerts, and meals.  A spouse program is also offered for $100.00 and includes two concerts, jams, and all meals.  For more information and instructions for registration, please call the park at (386) 397-7005.

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• Stephen Foster Quilt Show and Sale

  • Start
    October 16, 2020
  •  
    9:00 AM (EDT)
  • End
    October 18, 2020
  •  
    4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

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  You’re invited to join us at the 31^st Annual Stephen Foster Quilt Show and Sale October 16-18, 2020 at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs, FL.

  
  

  Quilts of all shapes and sizes using both traditional and modern techniques will be on display! This year’s theme is ‘Remember When…’.

  
  

  There will be demonstrations, workshops, and a special exhibit in our museum.

  The Fiber Muse Group and Vendors will be doing demonstrations daily. Quilting supply vendors and handmade textile artists will be available all weekend long. 

  
  

  We are looking for quilts and fabric art to display and would love to have yours! Don’t want your quilt professionally judged? That’s okay – just mark the box on the registration form for entry into the “People’s Choice Award Only.”

  
  

  If you are interested in being a vendor or demonstrator, please contact us at (386) 397-7009 for more information.

  
  

  What: Stephen Foster Quilt Show & Sale

  When: October 16-18, 2020 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

  Where: Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

  11016 Lillian Saunders Drive

  White Springs, FL 32096

  Information: (386) 397-7009

  
  

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• Big Shoals Pumpkin Fest

  • When
    October 24, 2020
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Big Shoals State Park

  Family Fun at Big Shoals State Park!

  Pumpkin bowling, face painting, pumpkin decorating, a treasure chest with prizes and a hayride through the woods. Collect pirate coins and enter the Museum Witches lair. There will be a costume parade at 5:00pm and an award ceremony at 5:30pm for costumes and for pumpkin decorating!

  Entry is Free!

  Please bring a pumpkin for each child that wants to decorate a pumpkin.

  
  

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• Rural Folklife Day

  • When
    November 05, 2020
  •  
    9:00 AM - 2:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

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  Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park is proud to present Rural Folklife Day, November 5, 2020.

  Demonstrators will be on hand showcasing Florida traditions of yesterday and today during this event.

  Rural Folklife Day celebrates the region’s rural past with demonstrations and hands-on learning activities.  Visitors can taste jellies, play traditional games, churn butter, sing songs, square dancing, quilt on a frame, taste sugar cane, assist a blacksmith, learn about lye soap, watch demonstrations of old-fashioned cane grinding and learn to fish!  

  This event is a long-standing tradition at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, for decades’ students have enjoyed field trips to the park to experience this event.  Schools and home school groups are encouraged to attend this event and pre-register! Contact the park for more information. Groups that do pre-register get into the Florida Folk Festival Education Day in May free! Teacher and bus driver admitted free with pre-registration.

  Everyone is welcome!

   Admission is $5 per person. 

  For more information, please call 386-397-7005

  
  

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• Stephen Foster Dulcimer Retreat

  • Start
    November 13, 2020
  •  
    11:00 AM (EST)
  • End
    November 14, 2020
  •  
    11:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
  • Spaces left
    100

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   Come enjoy a weekend of music and fun at the Dulcimer Retreat on November 13 & 14, 2020 at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in historic White Springs, Florida. The weekend offers workshop sessions taught by foremost mountain & hammer dulcimer instructors from throughout the United States.

  Concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:00 pm that will feature your favorite musicians and workshop instructors. The entire retreat costs $105.00, which includes entrance to both Friday and Saturday concerts & workshops.

  After October 23, there is a $15.00 late registration fee. For more information on the Stephen Foster State Park Dulcimer Retreat call 386-397-7009.

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