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29010
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David Holt, a folk musician from Alamance County, North Carolina, plays the banjo, slide guitar, and bones. The bones are the actual rib bones from a cow, and an ancient rhythm instrument. History and context are important to Holt, as his music is a form of storytelling.
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27101
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Abigail Washburn is a songwriter and banjo picker who incorporates the sounds of China into folk music. She is a frequent performer in Chapel Hill, and recently earned a coveted fellowship with the University of North Carolina’s Southern Folk life Collection. Washburn will perform at Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall on April 17.
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27104
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Folksinger Sammy Walker is known as music’s New Dylan. Walker released his first record in 1975 but disappeared from music when he relocated to Hayesville, North Carolina in 1996. With the help of Ramseur Records, Walker has been given a second chance to share his old songs.
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36970
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A self-proclaimed public folklorist, Duffy started the Music Maker organization to help authentic folk musicians.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016,
p8-12
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24870
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George Holt remembers his friend Joseph Wilson after Joe’s death in May 2015. Wilson had many accomplishments in life from his tenure as the director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts to the dozens of CD’s he produced throughout his life. Wilson has received several honors and will be sorely missed by the folk art community.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 62 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 2015,
p102-104, por
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36955
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Howell is a fiddler who teaches, has contributed over 500 fiddle tunes to university archives, and has immersed himself in the music of Western North Carolina since his childhood.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 62 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2015,
p18-24
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36841
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David Lee began playing music and creating song lyrics when he was a teenager, which led to his launching of his own record company and his own music. Over the years, his career in music represented an important contribution to folklife, especially vernacular music and occupational folklife in North Carolina and the Southeast.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 58 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011,
p14-19
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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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36357
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Reprinted from NCFJ 42.2
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 50 Issue 1-2, Fall-Winter 2003,
p9-11
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36355
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Scancarelli received the award for his behind the scenes work recording and promoting musical traditions. He led recording teams, took photos, wrote liner notes, created cover art, and distributed annual LP recordings on his own label.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2002,
p119-121
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4808
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From the mountains to the coast, traditional music is alive and well in North Carolina, with numerous festivals highlighting fiddlers and other stringed instrumentalists, dancers, and singers. Gatherings include Fiddler's Grove, now in its 76th year at Union Grove; OcraFolk Festival on Ocracoke Island; Alleghany County Fiddlers' Convention; and the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, stared in 1927 and held in Asheville.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 20, May 2000,
p35-37, il
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27454
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Alice Gerrard, a Durham area folk musician, is recognized for her contribution to the arts in the Triangle Area. Gerrard, is the publisher and editor of a national magazine devoted to old-time music called The Old-Time Herald. Gerrard’s life and career are examined and she is praised for her work and musical abilities. Gerrard is best known for her folk songs written from the feminist perspective detailing the everyday life of women.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 19, May 9-15 1990,
p7, 12
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35899
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Henry was a blues musician who had talent, perseverance, love of the blues, and helped preserve part of North Carolina’s musical heritage.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1989,
p67-69
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35887
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Thomas Burt participated in the full scope of blues history in North Carolina, from childhood to playing in blues festivals.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p87-89, por
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35889
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Ernest East was a traditional fiddler and string band leader who kept alive old-time music.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p97-98
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