BOONE—Appalachian State University will host award-winning musician, author and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Blue Ridge Ballroom.

Admission is free and the public is invited.

Sponsors include the Department of English, Women’s Studies Program and the Appalachian Heritage Council at Appalachian, Friends of Mountain History and the Blue Ridge Folklife Institute.

For more information, contact Susan Pepper, chair of the Appalachian Heritage Council at sp70022@appstate.edu or Cece Conway in the Department of English.

A native of Western North Carolina, Adams has thrilled audiences across the globe with her traditional Appalachian ballads, stories and banjo playing.

A seventh-generation storyteller, Adams performs her ballads and shares stories in the same style in which they were handed down to her. She has been a featured artist at festivals throughout the Southeast, including the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tenn., the Smithsonian Bi-Centennial Folk Festival in Washington D.C., and the Eno River Folklife Festival in Durham.

Her book “Come Go Home With Me” (1997) won the North Carolina Historical Society’s award for historical fiction, and “My Old True Love” was a finalist for the Southeastern Booksellers Association’s 2004 Book of the Year Award, and a finalist for the Appalachian Writers Association’s 2004 Book of the Year Award.

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