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Asheville Fringe Arts Festival: Double Feature: Yiddish Animal Songs, Leah and The Rabbit

Asheville Fringe Festival Lineup Released - The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival moves to March, springing into its 21st year of weird and wonderful art from near and far.
Cirque, Comedy, Contemporary Music, Dance, Dance-Theatre, Film, Miscellaneous, Music, Musical Theatre, Performance Art, Poetry, Public art, Puppet Theatre, Speaker, Storyteller, Visual Art Preview by Andrea McKerlie Luke, March 19, 2023

( Thu., Mar. 23, 2023 - Sat., Mar. 25, 2023 )

Story Parlor, 227 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806

Program

Yiddish Animal Songs
by Jesse Greenberg / a glassy ruckus

Queens-based musical duo A Glassy Ruckus (Jesse Greenberg and Naeemah Maddox) performs two pieces inspired by Yiddish folk tales about animals and interspecies relationships: “Diary of a Squirrel” (1920) by Sonya Kantor and “Zlateh the Goat” (1966) by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Leah and The Rabbit
by Mikayla Wilson/American Myth Center

Leah & the Rabbit uses playful puppetry and spirited live storytelling to intertwine the stories of Brer Rabbit and a freed woman named Leah.

Notes

Now in its eighteenth year, Asheville Fringe continues to ask artists to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. We strongly suggest that you see more than one Fringe show because of the incredible variety of artists and types of work. One show is just not enough to really have the total Fringe Festival experience!