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Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contests Produced by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia Emceed by Amanda Dills Stewart of the "Fiddling Dills Sisters"  Many of today's great mountain musicans and storytellers grew up sitting on the front porch with their family members, listening and learning to pick a guitar or a banjo...or fiddle...or listen to stories told as fireflies flashed intermediently in the night air. Today's youth will honor what their parents honor, what the schools honor, what the community honors. With this in mind, for the past seven years Catch the Spirit of Appalachia has produced a Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest two times a year with hopes of providing a continuing "sense of place" for this local musical heritage, and to instill within our young people the honor of carrying on our local traditions. It began with the Founder's Stage at Greening Up the Mountains Festivals in downtown Sylva, was added 5 years ago to the Mountain Craft Fair section of the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad Railfest in Bryson City. The contests include: Vocals, Instrumental, Dance, Poetry/Prose/Storytelling. The largest benefactors for these contests have been Bear Lake Reserve from Tuckasegee; the Downtown Sylva Association; the Jackson County Parks Department; and the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad of Bryson City.  Jesse Stephans  Rebekah LovedahlTwo Contests for 2009  Kid's Super Saturday—May 16, 2009The site for the first Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Talent Contest will be the Jackson County Recreation Center in Cullowhee. CSA will again partner with the Jackson County Parks Department to hold the contest during KID’S SUPER SATURDAY on May 16, 2009. Amanda Dills Stewart of the "Fiddling Dills Sisters" will once again coordinate the contest. Along with cash prizes offered through CSA, the Jackson County Recreation Center will also provide the following prizes: All participants will receive day passes to the Sylva Pool. Best of Show Prizes will be: First Place: Individual Season Pass to the Sylva Pool (worth $80). Second Place: $25 Gift Certificate to Walmart. Some of the participants in the 2008 Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Contest at Kid's Super Saturday GSMR Railfest—Saturday, Sepember 19 2009 The second contest will once again be held at the 2009 GSMR Railfest from 10:45am until noon on Saturday, September 19th. Trophies sponsored by the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad will be presented to the winners CSA encourages entries in vocal, instrumental, dance, poetry, prose and storytelling for any youth up to the age of eighteen. Entry forms will be available at the Jackson County Recreation Center, and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and online here at www.spiritofappalachia.org. See below for the application.  Here are some of the participants of the 2008 Heritage Alive! Mountain Youth Contest at GSMR Railfest. Mountain Heritage Day—September 26, 2009 For the 4th year we were proud that Western Carolina University's Mountain Heritage Day chooses to honor our "Best of Show" winners with a dedicated spot on their Heritage Stage. Thank you Mountain Heritage Center!  Jacob Jones and Cody Nations of Sylva on stage at Mountain Heritage Day, 2007. Download the appropriate application form: Kid's Super Saturday, May 17, 2008 http://www.spiritofappalachia.org/doc/2008KidsSuper-TalentContest.pdf GSMR Railfest, September 20, 2008 http://www.spiritofappalachia.org/doc/2008RailfestTalent.pdf |
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