LEAF Celebrates the Blues:
Your WEEKEND PROGRAM is now ONLINE!
Your Spring LEAF 2012 Performing Arts Lineup
Headlining our 34th festival are Blues legend Taj Mahal, Afrobeat progeny Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, and New Orleans institution Preservation Hall Jazz Band. [Just added - The Wood Brothers!] In addition to Taj, several other artists will be helping to celebrate Blues Traditions, with support in part by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. Art Works. From the dark, smoky clubs of Chicago & St. Louis, all the way down through the Hill Country and into the bayous of the Deep South, you'll be introduced to an sampling of Blues artists, intermingled with the diversity of cultural names and faces you've come to love at LEAF.
Click HERE for full lineup!
ALL TICKETS are CLOSED.
NO MORE SALES- NO SALES at GATE.
Volunteers are full.
Thank you LEAFers- let's enjoy the festival!!
FALL LEAF OCTOBER 18-21- tickets on sale June 1st.
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Thank you to Ivi & Dorne with WonderWorldTV for editing the video!
Rock The Quarry
MAY FUN Run & Hike The Quarry
8:30 Saturday, meet at Gate 6
$5 Adults| $1 Kids Under 18 [Bring Cash]
+ 100% of funds go to LEAF in Schools & Streets Music Program at Black Mountain Home for Children.
Look forward to OCTOBER Rock The Quarry. 4 Mile Run with entry fee etc...
Buy 2012 Lichty Guitar Tickets !
A beautiful rich tone for this incredible guitar by Jay Lichty and stunning original artwork by acclaimed Raleigh artist, Clark Hipolito.
This guitar has been featured in art exhibits that include the Birds of a Feather Art Exhibit in Wilmington, NC and at the World of Music Exhibit at Art Trail Gallery in Florence, SC.
Tickets are $10 each and 100% of proceeds go towards music and arts programs for youth locally and globally!
Read More and Buy Your Ticket Today!
New to LEAF this May
HayMow| A Raised Art Experience
HayMow, in the historic Black Mountain College Barns, will feature visual outsider artists showcasing and selling their works of “Uncommon Art,” conduct workshops, and hold conversations with the underlying philosophy of folklore as action. Lamar Sorrento of Memphis will be one of the HayMow artists who will be honoring Robert Johnson’s 100th birthday celebration, as part of LEAF’s Blues focus.
May Juried Handcraft & Folk Artists
Relax & Explore with 50+
Healing Arts Workshops & Booths:
May Healing Arts Workshops
"LEAF showed me a life that I had lost contact with and awakened me to the excitement of possibility." Dr. C.B.
