Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival

Description: Appalshop launched our Seedtime on the Cumberland festival in 1987, taking the name from Harriette Simpson Arnow’s book of stories about earlier times in Eastern Kentucky. The festival aims to portray the depth and richness of our heritage and celebrate passing it on to new generations. Performers include both the “old masters” and young artists who learned from them. We held the festival in our theater at 91 Madison Avenue, Whitesburg, until 1989, at which point we rented a big tent and held the festival in the parking lot. Now Seedtime has a permanent home under the Solar Pavilion, in the same parking lot. For many years the traditional acoustic music programing has been accompanied by a punk show, held at the Boone Building across the street, or more recently at the Whitesburg skate park, or the Solar Pavilion.

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