From the Festival Desk:

The Shakori Hills Community Arts Center

With returning beautiful weather, the chirps and singing of birds and the planting of gardens, we are planting the seeds of a Community Arts Center!

A Community Arts Center can be: a hands-on teaching center, a place to re-unite and celebrate with friends and family, a rallying spot for needed change or for politicians to speak, a place to marry and begin a new life with a loved one, or maybe just a place to walk the dog on this freshening Spring day…  Possibilities are as endless as time and energy permit!

The almost 75 acres of rolling meadows and big oak trees that hosts the GrassRoots Festival has been home to Mountain Aid, Fiesta Latina, the Hoppin’ John Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention, Woods Rock (a fund-raiser for Woods Charter school) as well as many other smaller events held every season.  Your ticket purchase for the festival helps support the festival site for these events and is much appreciated by the community here in central North Carolina.

Our first big step towards creating the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center is to complete the purchase of the land here at Shakori Hills.  We need to raise $75,000 for a down payment; the rest of the purchase price will be paid through the proceeds of the bi-annual GrassRoots Festivals.

We invite you, the Shakori Hills festivalgoer and community, to please pitch in to purchase the Shakori Hills farmstead.  As there are over 7500 folks who participate and attend the Grassroots Festivals, that means that each one of us need only donate an average of ten dollars to raise the down payment.  As you know, not everyone can or will donate so please contribute what you personally can.  We all very much want to keep the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance here in Chatham County, so raising the down payment is very important.  Shakori Hills Community Arts Center Inc., a North Carolina not-for-profit corporation, will be accepting contributions during the festival or you can contribute on-line at: www.shakorihills.org.

Thank you very much, in advance!
Jordan Puryear

Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance co-coordinator and member of the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center board of directors