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Gloria Free at Goombay 2022

Staff Reports September 13, 2022

Gloria Free, mother and founder of Asheville’s Goombay Festival, takes to the stage to inspire us with words of wisdom in this short video clip.

Video by Renato Rotolo, September 2022

Gloria Howard Free persuaded the Friends of the YMI to host Asheville’s first Goombay festival in 1982.

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