Thank You! To everyone who participated in our
30th Annual Fall Homecoming
If you missed the 2009 Homecoming
and would like a commemorative brochure,
please let us know, we'll be happy to send you one.
Hope to see you for 2010 Homecoming! (October 8-10)
Check back here for future announcements on our 2010 event.
Our festival showcases some 400 musicians featuring authentic Southern Appalachian bluegrass, Gospel, folk and old-time country music continuously playing on 5 stages. Wherever you are on the grounds there will be music nearby. Old-time crafters will entertain and offer their treasures for sale. Demonstrator will show and explain how people lived and worked during pioneer times. As always there will be plenty of tasty Southern vittles to enjoy. Southern hospitality will be in abundance too.
Bring a chair
and join the thousands of folks who make their
annual pilgrimage to the
Museum of Appalachia's Tennessee Fall Homecoming,
one of the nation's largest and most authentic
old-time mountain, craft, and music festivals.
Wander the Museum's 60-acre village
and farm complex, participate in the daily hymn
sing in the log church, or just treat yourself to
some of the Southeast's finest music, ranging from
gospel to bluegrass, performed from the Museum's
four stages, along with buck dancing and clogging.
Each day of the event, dozens of local cooks serve country food, some of it prepared on woodburning stoves and in iron kettles.
And over 175 artisans—some whose work is rarely
seen elsewhere—demonstrate old-time
mountain activities, including quilting, basket
weaving, splitting cedar rails, spinning and
weaving, whittling, caning chairs, making lye
soap, and constructing old-time instruments.
Thousands of handcrafted items are available
for purchase during the four-day event.
Selected sixteen times as one of the Top 20 October Events by
the Southeast Tourism Society. Festivities
are held the second full weekend in October,
Thursday through Sunday, from 9 a.m. until dark each day,
regardless of weather. Ample free parking is
available. Event admission rates
apply. Tickets are available at the gate, but
advance tickets are available at reduced rates--see
the link above for ticket order form.
Students are invited to come to the Wednesday
preceding Homecoming, our Appalachian Heritage
Day for Students. We introduced an
exciting new
format for 2007, with more activities and music
geared to children.
Don't let another harvest
season go by without joining us at
Tennessee Fall
Homecoming!
