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Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival set for Oct. 6-9

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The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is a collaboration between the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center and Donna the Buffalo’s GrassRoots Festival Organization, providing a family-friendly celebration of music, dance, art and education.

The Shakori Hills Community Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Make a donation to the SHCAC! The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival Organization is also a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit. Find out more about the GrassRoots Family.

For tickets and more information, visit this link https://www.shakorihillsgrassroots.org/

About Donna the Buffalo

A friend and fellow musician suggested the band name of “Dawn of the Buffalo,” which was misheard as “Donna the Buffalo.” The name stuck, and a couple years later in 1991, Jeb Puryear started the GrasssRoots Festival along with Donna the Buffalo, his family and everyone else that he knew.

Now almost 30 years later, Donna the Buffalo tours regularly and hosts multiple GrassRoots festivals. Their devoted fans, The Herd, are a self-organized “tribe” of people who met at the group’s shows and travel to see them.

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