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28964
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Dom Flemons, Kaia Kater, and Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton are among a handful of people of color who are asserting their rightful place in folk, bluegrass, and old-time music. The three musicians recognize the centuries-long impact of racial discrimination in music. Their performance in Raleigh will spotlight the African roots of the banjo, and feature music and songs which use rhetoric as a way to break barriers and open minds.
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Harrison describes the music of Jug Tucker, a bluegrass band that also plays jazz and swing standards, western swing, and Irish fiddle tunes. The band is based on the Outer Banks, and they play 99 percent of their gigs in bars and restaurant decks between Corolla and Ocracoke. Jug Tucker consists of Mark and Sherri Criminger and Ed Gee.
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36408
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Ralph Lewis was an amateur folk musician and his sons, Marty and Don, formed a band featuring their father. Their music is high-energy and based on a family-based collaboration of bluegrass tradition passed between two generations of the Lewis family.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004,
p35-54
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36332
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Reviewing the past nominations for the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award, the author spent time with some of the nominations, Jennings Chestnut and the Faulks. Chestnut is the owner of Chestnut Mandolin, a handmade string instrument store. Guy and Tina Faulk are folk musicians and the owners of Guy and Tina’s Bluegrass Pickin’ Parlor, a hub for local bluegrass music.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 48 Issue 1-2, 2001,
p59-67
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36502
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JC Kemp represents the large scale musical transformation that took place during the 1950s in the central Appalachians. He combined old time fiddle music and gospel singing, contributing to the bluegrass sound.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p36-48
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20943
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In this obituary Bernhardt remembers Haney and his great contributions to bluegrass music. During his lifetime Haney was a country and blue grass manager promoter, record producer, and songwriter. It was his contribution to bluegrass music that earned him the International Bluegrass Music Association's 1990 Distinguished Achievement Award and in 1998 election to their Hall of Fame.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall/Win 2010,
p66-69, il
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12666
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In 1864, Raleigh publishers advertised a thin pamphlet \"The Jack Morgan Songster,\" the latest and most popular songs, for $1. The book was designed as a handy collection of songs for use by the soldier around the campfire, compact and light enough to be carried on the march.
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Eris Ellis is a musician's musician, whose career as a banjo player represents the dynamic of family, local community, and wider national contexts that contribute to old time and bluegrass music. Ellis has recently been introduced into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame and is one of the best exemplars of a musical style that began in North Carolina: Scruggs-style banjo playing.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2010,
p4-7, bibl, f
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10026
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Union Grove in Iredell County is home to the Fiddler's Grove Ole Time Fiddlers and Bluegrass Festival. Started in 1924, it is the oldest continuous “ole time fiddler's contest†in North America.
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The Steep Canyon Rangers had its beginnings at UNC-Chapel Hill around 2001. Melzer recounts how the group has become popular emissaries for traditional bluegrass music.
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Sites such as The History Museum of Burke County and Benjamin May-Lewis House offer information about North Carolina’s history. An experience of the state’s beautiful landscapes can be found in areas such as WRAL Azalea Gardens and Wiseman’s View. Entertainment and dining can be found at businesses such as Drexel Barber Shop and Chapel Hill’s Sup Dogs.
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Burke County--History; Farmville--History; Pitt County--History--Towns--Farmville; Wilson--Description and travel; Linville Gorge; Bluegrass music; Cathedrals--Raleigh; Alexander County--History; Kinston--Economic development; Hiddenite--Description and travel; Taylorsville; Benjamin May-Lewis House; Sup Dogs--Chapel Hill
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Bob Donaghey has a wide background in broadcasting, including work with Ed Sullivan, CBS soap operas, and running his own talent agency. In 1994, he chose Caswell County as a place to live part of the year away from New York. He immediately fell in love with the wealth of bluegrass music and performers in the state. Now armed with state-of-the-art digital technology in his multi- purpose studio near Pelham, he works not only to record and preserve bluegrass music but to promote it beyond the state.
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Comer examines the lives of the Trantham family of Haywood County and the Cockman family of Catawba County, two families who are carrying their music, stories, and traditions into the twenty-first century.
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39661
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Leroy Smith began making a name for himself in the bluegrass music scene in the mid-1960s and has continued to perform and compose music since then.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 64 Issue 1 & 2, 2017,
p25-27
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27476
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Raleigh’s Chatham County Line is a bluegrass quintet that has been playing for thirteen years. In their latest record, Autumn, the band continues to utilize the traditional bluegrass tool kit of acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, and upright bass in service of a more modern sound.
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