Who We Are
The Charlie Poole Music Festival, now celebrating its 15th year, is a project of Piedmont Folk Legacies, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and preserve the musical and cultural legacy of the Piedmont region and to celebrate its influence on the development of American vernacular music, as exemplified by Charlie Poole. The festival is held each year on the second weekend of June in Eden, North Carolina, home and final resting place of Poole. Fans come from far and wide to celebrate the special contribution that Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers made to American music.
Also a project of Piedmont Folk Legacies is the National Banjo Initiative, an endeavor whose principal goal is the establishment of a National Banjo Center. Proposed facets of this center would include permanent and changing exhibits, an archival repository for banjos and related materials and documents, classroom space for workshops and music instruction, a performance theater, recording studio, and incubator space for music instrument makers. Previous grants from the North Carolina Arts Council have provided organizational and architectural assessment funds. A recent grant from the North Carolina Rural Center is currently funding a feasibility study being conducted by the Bryan School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Piedmont Folk Legacies, Inc.
Board of Directors
Louise W. Price, President
Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, Vice-President
Marianne S. Aiken, Treasurer
Bill Kornrich, Secretary
Jennifer Griffin, Corresponding Secretary
Sheldon "Shelly" Balbirer
Christopher King
Joe Mead
Dan Peck
Wayne Seymour
The Charlie Poole Music Festival, now celebrating its 15th year, is a project of Piedmont Folk Legacies, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and preserve the musical and cultural legacy of the Piedmont region and to celebrate its influence on the development of American vernacular music, as exemplified by Charlie Poole. The festival is held each year on the second weekend of June in Eden, North Carolina, home and final resting place of Poole. Fans come from far and wide to celebrate the special contribution that Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers made to American music.
Also a project of Piedmont Folk Legacies is the National Banjo Initiative, an endeavor whose principal goal is the establishment of a National Banjo Center. Proposed facets of this center would include permanent and changing exhibits, an archival repository for banjos and related materials and documents, classroom space for workshops and music instruction, a performance theater, recording studio, and incubator space for music instrument makers. Previous grants from the North Carolina Arts Council have provided organizational and architectural assessment funds. A recent grant from the North Carolina Rural Center is currently funding a feasibility study being conducted by the Bryan School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Piedmont Folk Legacies, Inc.
Board of Directors
Louise W. Price, President
Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, Vice-President
Marianne S. Aiken, Treasurer
Bill Kornrich, Secretary
Jennifer Griffin, Corresponding Secretary
Sheldon "Shelly" Balbirer
Christopher King
Joe Mead
Dan Peck
Wayne Seymour