Accomplishments

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Guest Appearances on the Following Shows
  
 

50th Anniversary Show of the Grand Ole Opry (ABC)

48-Hours

The Dina Shore Show

Regular guest slot on the Dean Martin Presents “Music Country” for NBC TV

The Erma Bombeck Show

Filmed Crisco commercials with Loretta Lynn

“Reading Rainbow”

Appeared in an Eddie Rabbit music video

“Hee-Haw”

Various performances on the Grand Ole Opry and in television productions originating in Nashville such as “That Nashville Music”

Crook and Chase

PBS Television’s “Bluegrass Spectacular”

 

 

Group’s Accomplishments

  • Opened Opryland USA and performed regularly in the park for several years

  • Tennessee Bicentennial Dancers and represented Tennessee at the official Bicentennial
  • Celebration in Philadelphia and also in similar events in ten other states across the U.S.
  • Toured 48 U.S. states and 30 foreign countries, usually as official U.S. representatives to folkloric festivals there.
  • Hosts of International Folkfest in Murfreesboro, TN, since 1982
  • Participants in the National Folk Festival at various sites around the U.S., including Wolftrap Farm,  Vienna, VA
  • Three week “Ambassadors for Friendship” tour to Romania
  • National Clogging Champions, Square Dance Island, KY
  • Dance Champions, Asheville, NC, and Lexington KY
  • “The Carter Fold”, Hiltons, VA
  • Hundreds of shows for convention groups in the Nashville area
  • Part of a Nashville ensemble that filmed a television show in Rome Italy
  • National Park- American Folkways Programs
  • Featured performers at the Florida Folk Festival
  • Awarded individual dance prize for performances at the International Festival in Woldova, Poland

 

Performed at the Following Places

 Washington D.C

General Services Administration

Department of Agriculture

The Smithsonian 

Walter Reed Army Hospital

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Information Agency

 
 

Various Performances and Events 

  • Performed in residence for the National Park Service in the Great Smoky Mountains
  • Performed at the World Trade Center, New York City
  • Performed at the National Folk Organization, National Convention
  •  Various performances for state and national 4-H events, including the National 4-H
  •  Congress in Chicago, and state conferences and congresses in Montana, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Arizona, Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, Iowa and Louisiana
  •  The Nancy Sinatra Show, The Saraha Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
  •  Premier showing of the movie “Nashville”
  • “Country Jubilee” show at the Landmark Hotel, Las Vegas
  •  Various performances in national parks, including The Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Cape Cod, Yellowstone, El Morro Castle ( San Juan), Statue of  Liberty Island, Battery Park, and St. John, V.I.     
  •  Jimmie Rodgers Festival, Meridian, Miss.
  •  Sperry-New Holland Corporation, Lancaster PA
  •  Hershey Park, Hershey PA
  •  “Summer in the Parks”. Washington D.C.
  •  National Walking Horse Celebration
  •  Twice featured at the Winter Carnival, St. Paul Minn.

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