About Us

Angeline Schwab was raised in the North Carolina mountains and spent summers running wild with packs of cousins, dogs, and raccoons on Bald Head Island along the Carolina coast. 

Angie’s professional background includes economic development programming, building community processes, regional branding, organizational development, nonprofit management and communications in all its forms.

She’s inspired by working with mission-driven people and organizations and sees work as an opportunity to make the community a better place.

Angie has managed a variety of festivals in Oregon, California and North Carolina. She's led production teams for local, regional, national and international performing groups. She's facilitated industry cluster development initiatives and communications services for governmental organizations. Serving as "Conductor" of work groups and weaving together results that reflect each participant's creative input is her joy and specialty. 

Angie served as the Executive Director of Folkmoot USA (2015-2020) headquartered in the Historic Hazelwood School in Waynesville. She and her team transformed the organization from a single, annual two-week festival to a year-round arts and cultural organization that produced three annual festivals and 40+ special events, including concerts, dinners, and workshops. 

When covid shut down Folkmoot programs, Buris Chalmers was born. Goes to show, that necessity is the mother of invention!

Angie credits her industrious nature to her Grandmother, Buris Crowell. She was a family convenor, a physics teacher, a gardener, a seamstress, owner/manager of two businesses and so much more. Buris also made sure her granddaughter went to college and Angie continues to feel grateful!

Angie’s key qualities: reliability, ideation, resourcefulness, strategic, futuristic, persistent and collaborative