Folkmoot USA
Folkmoot USA is a successful two-week international folk festival in Waynesville, N.C. in its 25^th year in 2008. Folkmoot has generously shared goodwill, expertise, staff time, and performers to launch Yocona Festival in Oxford.

International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals & Traditional Arts (CIOFF)
Yocona International Folk Festival is recognized as a CIOFF International Festival.  

Camp Lake Stephens
The summer youth camp facility of the United Methodist Church in North Mississippi, Camp Lake Stephens is in rolling forested foothill country. Our guests will appreciate new air-conditioned cabins and auditorium. A lake with canoes, a large swimming pool, and nature walks will be enjoyable. Yocona Festival will host special evenings, featuring a bonfire at the lake and pool/pizza parties. The socials give the dancers an opportunity to meet each other, relax and perform their music and dances from the earlier shows, when their peers were all backstage. Rehearsal space will be available

Yoknapatwpha Arts Council
The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, YAC, hosted Yocona's Blues to Bluegrass benefit at the Powerhouse in 2007.

Lafayette-Oxford-University Chamber of Commerce
Check out the Lafayette-Oxford-University County Chamber of Commerce for information about the area, accommodations, local attractions and more.

Oxford Lions Club
Oxford Lions Club is a member of Lions International, a service club dedicated to preservation of sight and hearing, and is responsive to disasters around the globe. Oxford Lions Club members conduct the traditional Christmas Parade and the Yocona Festival Parade.

Ole Miss Rotary Club (no website currently available)
Chartered in 2006, Ole Miss Rotary Club is a member of Rotary International,. They are a service club working in the area of literacy, and have donated the Yocona International coloring books to be shared by North Mississippi children.

Delta Blues Museum
Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the northern Mississippi Delta, is the home of the world-famous Delta Blues Museum. Other points of interest are Ground Zero, Morgan Freeman’s Blues Club, adjacent to the museum; and the notorious crossroads, where bluesman Robert Johnson “sold his soul to the devil” in exchange for his guitar-playing talent!

Oxford Tourism Council
Check out the Oxford Tourism Council for information about the area, accommodations, local attractions and more.

Mississippi Band of Choctaws
Philadelphia, Mississippi is the ancestral home of the Choctaw Indians, who bear a rich and lively culture. The Choctaw Indians bear a rich and lively culture. They celebrate high days and holidays with favorite foods and festivals. They cherish and perform their tribal dances. They fashion blowguns and baskets of native cane, and they play the old game kabocha toli - stickball, with handmade hickory sticks and balls.

Mississippi Tourism
Blues, country and rock and roll, it all started right here in he birthplace of American music.

Rust College
Historically black liberal arts college in Holly Springs, Mississippi, founded in 1866 by the Freedman’s Aid Society and the Methodist Episcopal church. Historic home of hill country bluesmen R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.

Elvis Homesite, Tupelo, Mississippi
The birthplace of Elvis Presley, King of Rock and Roll, includes a museum of Elvis memorabilia, gift shop, chapel, memorial garden, and the shotgun house where Elvis lived before his family moved to Memphis.

Mississippi Humanities Council
MHC is a private nonprofit corporation funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal arts disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi. MHC sponsors, supports, and conducts a wide range of programs designed to promote understanding of our cultural heritage, interpret our own experience, foster critical thinking, encourage reasonable public discourse, strengthen our sense of community, and thus empower Mississippi’s people with a vision for the future.