Historic Rugby continues its series of performances and workshops featuring Appalachian musicians, writers, storytellers, and other artists on Aug. 1, with a performance by “Edu-Tellers” Betty and Mike Rowe.
The Roes tell individual and tandem stories of all types: historical stories, personal stories, and folktales. They presented storytelling concerts and workshops for schools, libraries, professional organizations, senior centers, and social organizations, including the International Reading Association (IRA) Convention, SE Regional IRA Conferences, TRA Conferences, TTU-IRA Conferences and meetings, and the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conferences.
They have performed across the U.S. and in Canada. They have co-authored numerous author and illustrator profiles for the TRA Journal and Tennessee Storytelling Journal.
They will mesmerize you. And they will make you think. The show starts at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central in the Rebecca Brown Theater. Admission is $10. Event made possible in part by a grant from the Arts Fund of the East Tennessee Foundation.
Rugby was founded in 1880 with the goal of building a strong agricultural community through cooperative enterprise, while maintaining a cultured, Christian lifestyle, free of the rigid class distinctions that prevailed in Britain at the time. The village has continued for 135 years, with numerous original buildings either restored or recreated. Learn more about the history of Rugby and its unique attractions at www.historicrugby.org.
Rugby is just off State Scenic Hwy. 52, 16 miles southeast of Jamestown and 35 miles from either Interstate 40 or I-75 in East Tennessee on the southern edge of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.