Join artist Jackie Mulhall and learn how to use natural dye to dye a piece of fabric that can be used as a bandana or to wrap a gift. No art experience necessary! In this natural dye workshop we'll be experimenting with marigold, cosmos, bearded beggar ticks, and cochineal. Participants will learn how to make […]
Rosin up your bow, tune up that banjo, get your dancing shoes out and join us at Fiddling on the Hill, our monthly traditional jam session. These sessions are welcoming and are open to all. Maddy Mullany and Clarke Williams will be leading the April jam. Fiddling on the Hill is supported by a generous […]
Join chef, forager, fiddler, author Susi Gott Séguret for a walk in the spring woods of her family's 200+ acre farm in northern Madison County, overlooking the crest of the Appalachian Trail. We'll start with the walk, identifying edible (and non-edible) plants along the way, including ramps and an array of spring wildflowers, we'll visit […]
Night Music is a short film inspired by the prison recordings created by folklorist John Lomax and his son, folklorist Alan Lomax. During the 1930s, the Lomaxes visited prisons in the deep South, including Louisiana’s notorious Angola Penitentiary. The film was written and directed by Lukas Huffman and produced by Huffman Studio in partnership with […]
We are excited to welcome Grammy Award-winner Dom Flemons to Mars Hill University! Flemons (also a two-time Emmy nominee and 2020 US Artists Fellow), is a roots musician famously known as The American Songster® since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. He is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, […]