Cumberland Times-News

March 11, 2010

Highland Arts Unlimited presenting FiddleKicks

Appalachian cloggers Keyser bound

For the Cumberland Times-News
Cumberland Times-News

— KEYSER, W.Va. — Highland Arts Unlimited will present a performance by the FiddleKicks dance company on March 26 at the Church-McKee Arts Center at Potomac State College of West Virginia University.

Prominent in performance, education and preservation of Appalachian clogging, FiddleKicks has experience and expertise in performing and teaching. The group’s show will include narration and audience participation, enabling area residents to connect with and personally experience the unique dance form.

The FiddleKicks performance will get under way at 7:30 p.m.

Admission for the upcoming concert is free to HAU members, and tickets for nonmembers will be available at the door. Student tickets are offered at a reduced rate, and children under 12 years of age will be admitted free with a paying adult.

This year’s HAU programs are funded in part by membership contributions, grants from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, the National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, and financial assistance from Potomac State College, the Mineral County Board of Education, and corporate sponsors.