Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance

FALL FESTIVAL - October 7-10

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

4-day and camping passes for the Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival are now available. Visit our store or call 919-542-8142 to order.

Meet Our Friends and Sign up to Campout During the Festival!

If you have not already, you should meet our friends at 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 get as many folks as possible to pledge to camp out over the weekend. Tent living is easy, fun, and no power necessary! Make sure to go to their site and sign up to be counted. It’s a perfect match with our festival because so many folks are camping out already as well as learning other ways to protect our beautiful Earth. Find out more information and sign up HERE!

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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 & 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!
  • 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!
  • You may have heard about our efforts to own the land we call Shakori Hills. Owning the land will make it easier to make improvements and to claim it as “our own.” Ours, meaning yours, everyone’s. If you have an interest in helping us with this endeavor, please feel free to write shakorihills@grassrootsfest.org or call us at 919-542-1746.

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

Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention - Sept. 17-19

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

Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance - April 21-24, 2011

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