Thursday, October 24, 2024 – Scary Stories and Ballads with Sheila Kay Adams – 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Please join us to hear Madison County’s own Sheila Kay Adams share stories and ballads on campus at Owen Theater.
Our Appalachian region is grieving right now, but we hope that coming together as a community and listening to songs and stories that have survived hundreds of years — across oceans, continents, and mountains — will provide some solace, escape, and beauty.
NEA National Heritage Fellow Sheila Kay Adams. Adams is the seventh-generation bearer of her family’s two-hundred-year-old ballad-singing tradition. Her teachers were her great-aunt Dellie Norton, cousin Cas Wallin, and other kinfolks in the Wallin, Chandler, Norton, Ramsey, and Ray families of Sodom, North Carolina, who have so long been admired by ballad singers and collectors. She has recorded prolifically and has performed at dozens of venues and festivals in the United States and Great Britain, including at the annual National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. In 2013, she received the National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Last week, she was awarded Berea College’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
This program is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and is first-come, first-served. (Please note: this program is not aimed for children.)
*There will be a donation station set up for hurricane relief efforts for folks who wish and are able to donate.*
We send our good thoughts out to all of you, and hope to see you all soon.
