<< Back 7/31/02 Mountain Dance Festival celebrates its 75th year SMN What: The 75th Mountain Folk and Dance Festival When: 7 p.m., Aug. 1-3 Where: Diana Wortham Theater Information: 828.257.4530, www.folkheritage.org or www.dwtheatre.com Ticket prices are as follows: ° Thursday — Adults $10 and Children $5 ° Friday and Saturday — Adults $12 and Children $6 ° Package ticket for all three nights are $30 for adults and $15 for children. Since 1927, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers and others have come to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” the first weekend in August at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. This year, performers at the 75th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will take to the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, through Saturday, Aug. 3 at the Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place in downtown Asheville. Bascom Lamar Lunsford founded the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival as a means for people to share and understand the beauty and dignity of the Southern Appalachian music and dance traditions that have been handed down through generations in Western North Carolina. He saw the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival grow to be the oldest gathering of its kind in the nation and it continues in this way, a platform for the talented of the high country lying between the Great Smoky and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Mountain Dance and Folk Festival tickets may be purchased through the Pack Place box office at 828.257.4530.