Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival

The fall of this twice annual spring and fall festival with dozens of bands on 4 stages, crafts, food, and more. Event starts Thursday at 4 PM through Sunday at 10 PM. Camping is available. Location is about 30 minutes from Chapel Hill and Pittsboro in rural Silk Hope area.
There is some focus on dance with a dance tent with wood floor, lessons in swing, salsa and zydeco, an ecstatic dancewave, clogging performance. Other bands include bluegrass, folk, world, jam- eclectic mix.
For Zydeco, Jack Wolf will teach a workshop Sunday at 2 PM followed by the Zydeco band, being Preston Frank with Donna the Buffalo. There is also a Zydeco dance Saturday Night late. There is a salsa workshop on Friday at 6 PM and swing dance workshop Friday at 7 PM. Latin music by Tumbao is an eclectic mix. For swing Bobby Henrie and the Goners play rockabilly.
More info at website .

For those who are hopeless without GPS and find themselves panicked because you can’t get a cell signal to map your way home late at night on the country roads. Just remember “RRLRL” which for a dance follow is a hop on the right foot and a triple step. Right out of the lot, right onto Emerson Cook (just remember Einstein’s E=MC squared, 2 O’s), left at end, right onto Hwy 87, left onto 64E. Just dance your way home!