Meet the Artist: John Thomas Fowler

Join us on Friday, October 23rd to learn more about our upcoming Quarantunes artist John Thomas Fowler. This interactive Q&A program is a great chance to get to know the artists before their performance the next week. Interested parties will need to register for this program. Our Meet the Artist programs are free and open to the public but interested parties must register on Zoom.

John Thomas Fowler is a mountain-heritage storyteller, award-winning musician, and author from the foothills of upcountry South Carolina. His storytelling combines a wonderful anthology of Appalachian folk tales, fairy tales, outrageous tall tales, and contemporary yarns with traditional songs and ballads. He has been a featured teller at Stone Soup Storytelling Festival, the International Storytelling Festival Exchange Place, Madison County Florida Storytelling Festival and is the host-teller-in-residence at Hagood Mill Storytelling Festival.

In addition to the accolades enjoyed from storytelling, John is an equally accomplished musician. He is a two-time harmonica champion at Fiddler’s Grove Old Music Festival in Union Grove N.C., and he has also received blue ribbons in the banjo competition at the prestigious Mountain Dance Folk Festival in Asheville N.C. and the Pickins Heritage Day Old-Time Music Festival. John received the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award in 2013.