All this week Trish and I are in Athens, Alabama, for the sixteenth Athens Storytelling Festival.
This Festival is unique in that on Tuesday we begin to see nearly 2,000 students each day as they arrive on field trips for storytelling. We do this for three full days before the actual “festival” gets underway on Friday.
Due to COVID, we did not have these students for the past two years, but, they instantly became excellent audience members and we had a great time with them. The tellers for the student days with me have been Tim Lowrey, Bil Lepp, and Bobby Norfolk.
On Tuesday night there was a fantastic community music program in the tent. The show combined two favorite groups, The Dill Pickers and Three on a String. These wonderful groups played and sang both separately and together for a wonderful two-hour show. It warmed our hearts since the weather was very cold outside!
Tomorrow the audience changes from students to regular festival attendees. There is also a change in some for the tellers for the weekend. We say goodbye to Tim and Bobby and hello to Dolores Hydock and Josh Goforth. We also will be happy for a break in the cold weather as we are being promised a high that may get into the seventies.
This is a model festival everyone enjoys!
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