South Carolina’s traditions of mouth-watering barbecue, home-grown bluegrass musicians and backcountry arts and crafts are all celebrated at the South Carolina State Museum’s annual Fall Heritage Festival and Pickin’ Party, Saturday, Oct. 13.
An old-fashioned pig pickin’ will offer festival-goers four styles of South Carolina barbecue prepared by award-winning cookers. Barbecue sampler plates with all four styles (vinegar and pepper, mustard, light tomato and Cheerwine-flavored) plus fixin’s are $10. A plate with one style with fixin’s is $7, and sandwiches and chips are $5.
More “pickin’” continues with the sounds of fiddles, guitars, mandolins and banjos on the Museum's front grounds. At 10 a.m., silhouette artist Clay Rice reveals his musical side with songs of the Lowcountry, followed at 11:30 a.m. by the “funky newgrass honk” sounds of Papa String Band. At 1 p.m., guests will be entertained by a bluegrass band that has been pleasing audiences since 1979, the Carolina Rebels. Popular local bluegrass musicians Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass will take the stage at 2 p.m., and acclaimed roots rocker Danielle Howle brings her unique Southern voice to the closing performance at 3 p.m.
Aside from great music and food, guests will also get the chance to purchase folk art and traditional handcrafted items and see craft demonstrations from artists across the state. Nearly 20 artists will display and sell their creations in pottery, jewelry, soaps, hand-carved wooden bowls, paintings, gourd art, broom-making, blacksmithing, Native American beadwork, and more.
Plus, folk lifeways group Common Knowledge will demonstrate early Carolina survival skills, and living history re-enactors Robert and Phillip Blackwell (the Carolina Indian Traders) will explain the trading system that developed between 17th and 18th century Charleston merchants and the Native American tribes.
The Fall Heritage Festival and Pickin’ Party begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. Events inside the museum are included with museum admission or membership.
For more information, call (803) 898-4952 or (803) 898-4989.
Bluegrass, barbecue and folk arts from pottery to tombstone carving will be the order of the day Saturday, Oct. 13 as the South Carolina State Museum celebrates its annual Fall Heritage Festival. Four kinds of succulent South Carolina barbecue, five musical acts including the Carolina Rebels (pictured), Papa String Band, Danielle Howle and more, plus nearly 20 folk artists demonstrating and selling their wares are just part of the fun!
Photo by Susan Dugan/courtesy S.C. State Museum.
Succulent Carolina barbecue from the Cheerwine team (pictured here) and three more award-winning teams will join great music, outstanding South Carolina folk art from grits art to woodcarving, living history re-enactments and more at the South Carolina State Museum Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Fall Heritage Festival.
Photo by Susan Dugan/courtesy S.C. State Museum
Nearly 20 folk artists from across the Palmetto State will join four award-winning barbecue cookers, five bluegrass, folk and roots bands and living history re-enactors at the South Carolina State Museum Oct. 13 for the Fall Heritage Festival. A wide range of arts and crafts can be seen (and purchased), from broom-making, pictured here, to jewelry, hand-made soaps, Indian beadwork, gourd art and much, much more.
Photo by Susan Dugan/courtesy S.C. State Museum
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