Record #:

36408

Author(s):

Burgin, Mathews

Abstract:

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.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 51 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2004, p35-54 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk music; Bluegrass music; Folk musicians

Record #:

36841

Author(s):

Greaves, Brendan; Perlmutter, Jason

Abstract:

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.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 58 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011, p14-19 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk musicians; Brown-Hudson Folklore Award; Record industry--North Carolina

Record #:

36955

Author(s):

Furgiuele, Hannah; Johnson, Brandon

Abstract:

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.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 62 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2015, p18-24 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Brown-Hudson Folklore Award; Folk musicians

Record #:

36970

Author(s):

Bouveron, Victor

Abstract:

A self-proclaimed public folklorist, Duffy started the Music Maker organization to help authentic folk musicians.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 63 Issue 1-2, 2016, p8-12 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklorists; Folk music; Social change; Folk musicians; Music