Cranberry Folk Dancers

This undated photograph shows the Cranberry Folk Dancers performing a tinikling dance. The tinikling dance is a traditional Philippine folk dance that depicts the movements of the long-legged and long-necked bird "tikling". As dancers prance around, two dancers sitting on the floor manipulate two long bamboo poles trying to trap their legs. Members from left to right include pole strikers Mickey Hobson and Rebecca Street, dancers Janice Watson and Ronnie Tatum, and background dancers David Tate, Frieda Julian, Melinda Buchanan, Johnny Tate, Tim Brinkley, Judy Pittman, Darlene Hodges, and David Vance. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death i