Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival
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- 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 aimed to portray the depth and richness of our heritage and celebrate passing it on to new generations. Performers included both the “old masters” and young artists who had learned from them. We held the festival in our theater until 1989, when Appalshop rented a big tent and now Seedtime has a permanent home under the largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky in 2019. For many years we sought out older artists whose work has defined our heritage like Ray Hicks, Etta Baker, and Wade Mainer. Morgan Sexton was a highlight of the early Seedtime years, hearing of the festival from his nephew Lee Sexton, whom he had taught to play banjo. After performing at Seedtime, Morgan went on to record an album on Appalshop’s record label and star as the subject of an Appalshop film.
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