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(43,970 posts)~ CLIFFTOP, APPALACHIAN STRING BAND FESTIVAL takes place annually. This year, Aug 3-7, 2016.
Location, Camp Washington-Carver, Clifftop. WV, 25831. Nearby New River Gorge area and Fayetteville.
This is the GREAT and possibly the largest festival for strictly old time music. There is no bluegrass here. The festival takes place every year, Wednesday to Sunday, first week in August.

It takes place in a secluded park with a great Depression-era log cabin and dance hall. Since the park is full by Wednesday, many musicians show up the weekend before. There is no such thing as a campsite reservation. Cars and tents and trailers and tarps are squeezed in everywhere. There is almost no such thing as level ground. It can be hot and it can be soggy and it can be muddy. The camp has been known to run low on water.
There is an organized square dance every night by the best bands in the land. There are ad-hoc dances too. Some campers organize talent shows and pot luck dinners. Sure, there is the stage show but who goes to that? There are organized kids' activities such as basket weaving but kids tend to wander off and find each other and have lots of fun. Grownups too.
Friday-Tuesday: pre-fest camping
Wednesday: Dance workshop, slow jam.
Thursday: Banjo and fiddle contests, dances, workshops.
Friday: Neo-traditional band contest, dances, classes.
Saturday: Traditional band contest, concert by past winners.
Sunday: Pack up and go.
Next Festival: Aug. 3-7, 2016 https://www.sites.google.com/site/oldtimefrederick/home/events/clifftop-festival
*More, http://www.wvculture.org/stringband/index.html

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"Clifftop: It's Just the Best Thing on Earth", Aug. 3, 2012, Charleston Gazette.
CLIFFTOP, W.Va. -- After eight days, Rebecca Dixon hadn't quite had enough of sleeping outdoors or listening to string band music. She probably won't be tired of it when the annual Appalachian String Band Festival at Clifftop concludes Sunday afternoon after the informal group hymn sing.
The North Carolina native arrived the night of July 26 at Camp Washington Carver in Fayette County. This is her fourth visit to the annual music festival and she's having a wonderful time. Taking a break from looking at a table loaded with new banjos to pet a friendly dog, the petite woman said of her arrival, "I slept in the front seat of my car. "In a rain storm," she added, sounding a little surprised at herself.
The festival didn't even officially begin until almost a week later. Workshops, contests, dances and classes started Aug. 1, but arriving a week before the festival starts isn't unusual. "There was a line of cars," she said. "I was 30th in line." Dixon and many others don't necessarily come for the events, although they're glad to have them. "Oh, it's the music and the people," she grinned. "There's this whole community of old-time music that comes here. It's just the best thing on earth!"
"Community" is the word repeated again and again at the Appalachian String Band Festival. Community is what brought Canadians Arielle Arnold-Levene and Sharon Joseph back from Toronto to rural West Virginia. "We don't really have this where we're from," Arnold-Levene said. "The people here are just so nice. Everyone is so nice, and there's the music. It's like stepping into a different world." MORE: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/News/201208030204#sthash.KdrDBbwY.dpuf