COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Gospel tunes, bluegrass, folk and blues are entertaining museum-goers at the McKissick Museum’s fourth annual folk festival at the University of South Carolina.
Blues musician Drink Small joins fellow performers Freddie Vanderford and Mill Billy Blues, the Wilson Banjo Co., the El Shaddai Ambassadors, and Ricky McDuffie and Family when the tunes kick off at 11 a.m. Saturday at the museum on the university’s historic Horseshoe.
The festival is part of the museum’s yearlong exhibit on cabinet making and woodworking.
Artisans Ike Carpenter, Mary May, Michael McDunn, Thomas Williams and the Palmetto Woodturners are demonstrating their techniques on the second floor of the museum beginning at 11:40 a.m.
The festival is free and open to the public.
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