Can’t Miss Alabama Sways To The Beat At The Black Belt Folk Roots Festival

By Shirley Jackson

Pay tribute to the bearers of the folkways, traditions and culture of the west Alabama region at the 43rd annual Black Belt Folk Roots Festival. The homecoming brings together old-timey blues and gospel musicians, craftspeople, storytellers, food specialists, community workers, class reunions and social clubs.

Feast on barbecue, polish sausage, fried fish, chicken and skins, country dinners, traditional food, assorted pies, cakes, snow cones, Italian ice and hand-churned homemade ice cream.

Handmade crafts include quilts and other needlework, baskets from white oak, pine needles and corn shucks.Saturday’s headliners are Clarence Davis, The Liberators, Jack Webb, Davey Williams, Russell Gulley and Terry “Harmonica” Bean.

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