PIONEER HOUSE Pop Up store at Clifftop, WV Appalachian Stringband Festival. Come visit us between tunes to peruse my hand printed letterpress paper goods, vintage square dance dresses, vintage cowboy boots, hats, contemporary honky-tonk wear. I am right beside Smakula Fretted Instruments. See you at my favorite square dance in the whole world.
Appalachian String Band Festival is a mountaintop gathering of musicians and friends with contests, concerts, workshops, square dances, camping and a hymn-sing. West Virginia masters are presented to an audience of more than 3000 musicians and string band music lovers from around the world. Over the history of this festival, more than 20 foreign countries and all 50 states have been represented, with many returning year after year to this much-loved festival.