Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance

A family-friendly festival of music, dance, art, and education. 4 days, 4 stages, and over 50 bands in beautiful, green Chatham County!

Spring festival dates: April 22-25, 2010! Tickets are now available at our Early Bird rate on our Tickets & Info page!

It’s hard to believe another fall festival has gone by! Thanks to all of you for making it happen, especially all of you wonderful volunteers! Seriously, we are well aware that if it weren’t for how much you love the festival and how much you tell everyone else how much you love it, we would not be here. We know that we have something very special here, and it belongs to all of us!

There are too many great memories to list. Here are a few special ones: ringing the bell on the new caboose, “swim swim swim”ing with Samba Mapangala, sweating in tents on a fall night (!), talking about green building or social business enterprises in the Sustainability Pavilion, digging in the sand at the kids’ tent, hearing Solas under a starry sky or the Duhks in the late night Dance Tent, eating french toast and bananas while waking up with a cup of coffee, cheering on a band you’ve never heard before, cheering on a band you’ve heard a million times, meeting the new friends you will see at the next festival and hugging old ones you met at the last. We know there are many more…

Keep checking back here as we start making plans for the spring festival; our Earlybird tickets will go on sale in November. Our solar cells are always available for gifts or just for fun. Can’t wait to see you in April 2010!

What else happens at Shakori Hills?

  • The festival has a solar project in the works! Our goal is to make all operations on the site solar-powered. We are doing this with the help of The Abundance Foundation as well as YOU, our festival attendees! Solar cells are available in our Grassroots Store, a cell goes for $10. By contributing to our solar fund, you become part of the festival itself. Thanks so much for all the time and money that has already been donated! We have a long way to go, but we are very excited about how far we’ve come! Find out more at www.shakorihills.org/solarize-shakori-project.
  • Shakori Hills has a wonderful program called Hopes and Dreams! Each festival, some of the artists involved visit surrounding schools in Chatham, Orange, and Durham counties for performances, workshops, and the like. This past fall, the participating artists were the Firehouse Rhythm Kings and Midtown Dickens. Shakori Hills values highly the importance of music and art in education and we want to make the festival home to the next generation of hopers and dreamers!
  • Last fall, just by happenstance, the festival fell on the same weekend as an annual event called Campout Carolina. This is a program run by Earth Share NC to make people aware of how easy it is to reduce power usage. They try to get as many folks as possible to pledge to camp out over the weekend. Tent living is easy, fun, and no power necessary! This past fall, we again worked together, and how perfect because so many folks camp at the festival already as well as learn other ways to protect our beautiful Earth. Find out more information at www.campoutcarolina.org!

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  • Shakori Hills met some friends this fall in FODfest. FODfest (Friends of Daniel Pearl Festival) is a celebration of the life of Daniel Pearl. Daniel was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was abducted and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. He was a wonderful person and a lover of music. His friends organized a way to celebrate Daniel and to let everyone else celebrate the beauty and power of music. Perhaps through this celebration we can bring about much needed peace, at least in our own little way. FODfest had musical sets at the festival and a booth in the Non-Profit Area. We’ll look forward to a long friendship with them!

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  • We also rent out the site to area non-profits, organizations, and individuals. If you are interested in finding out more about this, click here!

Mark your calendars for these other events happening soon at Shakori Hills:

Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance - April 22-25, 2010

Fingerlakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance - July 22-25, 2010

Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance - October 7-10, 2010

If you would like to be on our email update list, please send your email address to shakorihills@grassrootsfest.org!