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Richmond Folk Festival
October 10-12
Friday: 6pm - 10:30pm
Saturday: Noon - 10:30pm
Sunday: Noon - 6pm
Kick Off Your Weekend!
Friday, October 10
Ukrop's/ First Market Bank Stage
6:50 - 7:10pm
Tezcatlipoca Voladores (Mayan sundance)
The "Flying Man" Sundance is surely the most spectacular dance created
in the western hemisphere. The earliest description of it comes from
when Christopher Columbus reached the North American continent on his
fourth voyage in 1502 and wrote of an amazing dance he saw at an Indian
village in what is now southern Mexico. Columbus reported back to
Ferdinand II and Isabella of men cutting the limbs off a tall tree,
wrapping vines at the top, dancing on a platform, then jumping off and
twirling down headfirst to the ground.
For event information, schedules, performers, parking and more visit www.richmondfolkfestival.org.
The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar on
Tredegar Street will be open with free admission and for extended hours
the weekend of the Richmond Folk Festival!
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10.8.2008 
