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The 2nd Annual Mountain Laurel Arts and Music Festival will be held on Saturday, May 11th 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Pisgah Civitan Park, 563 County Road 374, Pisgah, AL.
The Mountain Laurel Festival promises a delightful day filled with arts, crafts, cars, music, and endless entertainment. Whether you’re a fan of local craftsmanship or automobiles, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Spend the day walking the mountain trails, seeing the magnificent waterfalls and even a natural bridge at this awe inspiring hidden gem.
Artists of every genre’, creators and craftsmen will be showing works of all kinds and will be available for purchase.
Talented local musicians will be preforming all day, including, Jonah Drake, Coby Greer, Rick Jones and Aaron Shavers of Wayward Son, Judy Nicole, Tyler Dean and JT Traylor.
Also a special encore performance of “ A Tribute to Roy Orbison by His Guitarist Bucky Barrett”
There will be vendors of all kinds and delicious food provided by Roadside Que and Papi’s Roasted Corn and more.
Gee’s Bend Quilter, Teresa Fuller will be a guest vendor at the Mountain Laurel Arts & Music Festival!
Gee’s Bend Quilters, beginning in the 19th Century by enslaved women, are an Alabama treasure, known worldwide.
Quilts from Gee’s Bend have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and many others.
In 2006 the U.S. Postal Service issued ten commemorative stamps featuring images of Gee’s Bend Quilts.
I am thrilled to announce that this distinctly American tradition will be represented at the Mountain Laurel Arts and Music Festival at the Pisgah Gorge in Pisgah, Alabama!
“Pisgah Gorge” Oil Painting from 1939 to be Unveiled at This Year’s Mountain Laurel Arts and Music Festival.
The painting has been donated to Pisgah Civitan by Beth Wheeler Hall.
The painting, “Pisgah Gorge” by the artist Apperson, was created as he traveled the Southern Mountains to paint.
Apperson stayed at the home of Jesse Harrison and Lucy Wheeler, the grandparents of Beth Wheeler Hall. In exchange for room and board he gifted the painting to them.
Beth’s father Bob Wheeler, took Apperson to the gorge and showed him the rock outcropping on the trail at Civitan Park. Apperson set up his easel there to paint this view of the gorge.
The painting was handed down to Bob and then to Beth.
She is graciously returning it home to Pisgah, so visitors to the Pisgah Gorge can enjoy this depression-era view.
Many thanks go to Beth Wheeler Hall for this important piece of Pisgah history.
Admission is free and parking is $5 a vehicle.
For more information or to register for arts & crafts show, vendors or car show, email [email protected]
