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 conference runs today through Saturday. Lihamba, who is living in the United States until July as a Fulbright-Hays Visiting Scholar at UCLA, said her two careers are not mutually exclusive. They're not necessarily oppositional. Of course, I'm not trying to make it that it's easy. Somehow, the two have always developed alongside each other.