University of Virginia Library

Prism Presents Band
To Finance Festival

A concert of folk and
contemporary music, featuring the
American Folk Band, will be
presented tonight at 9, at the Prism
Coffee House at 214 Rugby Road.

The proceeds will be used to
help finance a folk festival here in
Charlottesville nest spring, with big
name folk singers possible.

Tonight's concert, in addition to
the American Folk Band, will
include single performers, Phyllis
Knight, Dennsi Davis, Bob Akin,
Mitch Rouzie, Cooper Norman,
Bob Crawford, Bill Brown and
Dawn Thompson.

Admission to the concert is fifty
cents at the door. Any
contributions will be accepted since
money collected will enable the
Folklore Guild to make more
definite plans for their spring
project.

All plans for the festival are now
very tentative, but the money
raised in tonight's concert will be
used to plan and finance the
project. The Newport Jazz Festival
would serve as a model for the
Charlottesville festival, but the local
one would be a miniature folk
music version.

The festival here in the spring
would have workshops in dance,
storytelling, and arts and crafts.
The Folklore Guild also plans to
contract well known folk singers
for the event. Although no specific
entertainers have been contracted,
the response to the concert tonight
will determine the price range of
the performers considered, since a
large turnout tonight would
indicate a suitable following to
warrant a folk festival.

The Virginia Folklore Guild,
founded at a meeting held Sunday,
November 24, is still open to
membership. Anyone interested in
folklore in general, and Virginia
Folklore in particular, is
encouraged to join the Guild. The
proposed folk festival is one of
several projects planned by the
group: projects which include the
collection and publication of extant
Virginia folklore and the discovery
of new material.