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Please visit the new Shakori Hills Inc. Website! The GrassRoots Festival thanks Shakori Hills for hosting the festival 2 times a year!

Spring Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance: April 16-19, 2009

A family-friendly festival of music, dance, art, and education. 4 days, 4 stages, and over 40 bands in beautiful, green Chatham County!

Even in the darkness, there is hope of light. Throughout winter lingers the promise of spring. In many of the world’s cultures around this time of year the notion of light and hope to come is very important. As humans, it is built into our survival to recognize that though we experience darkness, cold, and bitter times, we are capable of hope. Here at Shakori Hills we have been thinking a lot about that hope. Hope for a clean slate of a new president, hopeful that he will do much to improve some of the darkness in our country and our world. Hope that, with our help, more of the hungry can eat, jobless can work, and peace can be recognized.

Spring is the perfect illustration of the concept of hope becoming reality. Green pokes out of the cold ground, warmth reaches us and pulls us outside, and music fills the air at Shakori Hills. As winter slows everything down a bit, we have been busy preparing for the Spring Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance. It’s going to be a great festival as always, and definitely a reason to come out and enjoy hope’s reality with our fellow men. Tickets are on sale in our Grassroots Store for a special Earlybird price of $75 for a weekend pass ($45 for youth). If you’d like to give them as a gift, we have a gift certificate pdf that you can personalize for that special person.

Always striving to be a place where education, art, and care for our world meet, this past fall we introduced the Shakori Hills Solar Project. Shakori Hills and our friends at The Abundance Foundation have teamed up so that in the near future, Shakori Hills - with your help - will be fully powered by solar energy. With the amount of energy we collect, we will be able to run all of our events and be able to sell excess power back into the grid. Anyone can sponsor a cell for just $10 each, or sponsor on a corporate level for multiple cells, so please think about donating and helping us become even more energy efficient. Find out how here.

Humans have an amazing capacity for hope. We love beautiful things and create wonderful works of art. We love to connect with others. In these winter days, when sometimes it gets dark and cold, it’s great that we have such wonderful things to keep hope alive. Come and celebrate with us this Spring!