Fayetteville tourism panel supports folk nonprofit group with second $15,000 payment

$30,000 total given to group focused on music education

Members of the Fayetteville Advertising and Promotion Commission listen to a presentation May 22 during a tour of the new Folk School of Fayetteville in the historic Walker-Stone House in downtown Fayetteville. The city's Advertising and Promotion Commission in February agreed to lease the historic home to the people behind Fayetteville Roots to use as a school providing educational musical community programs, called Folk School of Fayetteville.

(File Photo/NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)
Members of the Fayetteville Advertising and Promotion Commission listen to a presentation May 22 during a tour of the new Folk School of Fayetteville in the historic Walker-Stone House in downtown Fayetteville. The city's Advertising and Promotion Commission in February agreed to lease the historic home to the people behind Fayetteville Roots to use as a school providing educational musical community programs, called Folk School of Fayetteville. (File Photo/NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)


FAYETTEVILLE -- Commissioners on the city's tourism panel praised a local musical nonprofit group for how much it has accomplished the last five months since opening at a historic home near the downtown square.

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