LEAF Celebrates the Blues:

Your Spring LEAF 2012 Performing Arts Lineup

Headlining our 34^th festival are Blues legend Taj Mahal, Afrobeat progeny Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, and New Orleans institution Preservation Hall Jazz Band. 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 the full lineup!

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Mark fall calendars for OCTOBER 18-21- tickets on sale June 1st.

"LEAF showed me a life that I had lost contact with and awakened me to the excitement of possibility." Dr. C.B.

HOOPER's BALL was hooptastic!!

Asheville Hoops Troops led by the dazzling Melanie MacNeil created such a creative evening to hoop and support LEAF in Schools & Streets [LSS]. The hoopers transformed the Montford Community Center in a colorful costume filled hoop experience. Contests revealed the Hoopers Ball King & Queen and Prince & Princess. Melanie is a star LSS teaching artist weekly at Montford and in IRL at AVL Middle School. Hula hooping used to be a pastime- now it is a creative expression helping people find their balance, rhythm and have fun. The Hooper's Ball was simply magical!

 

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