Admission is free followed by a reception. The event takes place June 21-24 at Summersville Music Park. Ralph Stanley, Rarely Herd, J.D. Crowe and New South, Del McCoury, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Josh Graves and Kenny Baker, IIIrd Tyme Out, and the Reno Brothers . The movie, starring Willem Dafoe and Luo Yan , is a tale of yearning for freedom and forbidden love set in the last days of imperial China. Buck was born in West Virginia in 1892 to Presbyterian missionaries, but was taken to China as an infant, where she lived more than 40 years.
Organizers say they are trying to bring the film to West Virginia.
The plot, after all, was quite adulterous, and virtually all the main characters were casting covetous eyes at someone other than the person they were supposed to be paired with. Friday, the Charleston Light Opera Guild opens its first production of the musical when Gary Brown and Deborah Lucas co-star at 8 p.m. at the Charleston Civic Center Little Theatre. His wife is afraid of the old man, a family friend she married out of pity. She has never married, but has a lover, a married military officer. On Broadway, the show won five Tony awards, including best musical, best score and best book.