| Louie Bluie Music & Art Festival |
| Saturday, June 14, 2008, Folk Life Tent 2 Show Times: 2:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. Louie Bluie Music & Arts Festival Cove Lake State Park in Caryville, TN Contact Person: Nancy Green, (423) 562-5154 Nancy Green, Director, CPLM, LaFollette Public Library |
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| DJ Lyons will give a one-woman show attempting to clear the name of Cate Williams Batts. This was the woman wrongly accused of being the poltergeist who haunted the family of John and Lucy Bell from 1817 to 1821. DJ will tell this story in first-person perspective, portraying the part of Cate Batts herself. This carefully researched and investigated performance piece (told from Cate Batts’ perspective) for middle school, high school, college, and adult audiences, reveals at last the true identify and motives of the Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee. Click here for more details. |
| DJ Lyons Presents: One Woman Show titled "The Bell Witch Unveiled" |
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| 11:30 am - 7 pm Norris Highlands Folklife Tent Sit and hear regional history and folklore ... 11:30 am Dianne Hackworth (Jack Tales) 12:30 pm The History of Campbell County’s African-American Community - Oscar Shepard and Fannie Kellogg 1:30 Pinnacle Mountain Boys 2:30 DJ Lyons (Bell Witch Unveiled) 3:30 Music on the Cumberland Trail panel 4:20 Dianne Hackworth (Jack Tales) 5:00 Musicians Panel: The Blues in East Tennessee Sparky Rucker, Wallace Coleman and Hector Qirko 6:00 DJ Lyons (Bell Witch Unveiled) Jack Tales - Folk tales depicting fictional well-rounded, self- reliant hero named Jack who triumphs over stronger adversaries by use of his wits or benevolent tricks. These tales were brought to Appalachia by Scotch-Irish immigrants, whose culture influenced the Appalachian notions of self-sufficiency and taking care of one’s own. Best known heroes are David Crockett and steel-driving John Henry. Bell Witch - The legend of the Bell Witch revolves around strange events allegedly experienced by the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee, from 1817-1935. Supposedly, John Bell, Sr. encountered a spirit in a cornfield on his large farm in Robertson County that would take sugar from bowls, spill milk, take quilts from beds, slap and pinch the children, and laugh. At first it was a good spirit, but later proved contrary. |
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