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4099
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Sheila Adams grew up in Madison County in the small town of Sodom, a community famous for its ballad singers. She is a seventh-generation singer and is passing on the tradition to her daughter. She received a 1998 Brown- Hudson Folklore Award for continuing the state's ballad tradition.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 45 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1998,
p115-116, il, por
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Record #:
5576
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Dellie Norton of Madison County received a 1990 N.C. Folk Heritage Award for preserving the old Scottish and English ballads brought by the first settlers to the Southern Appalachians. She performs in the traditional, unaccompanied way.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997,
p29-30
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Record #:
5871
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Born and raised in Madison County, Doug Wallin received a 1989 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award for preserving in his singing the style and tradition of the old ballads, hymns, and love songs.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997,
p15-16, por
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Record #:
28372
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Ballad singer-storyteller Sheila Adams Barnhill discusses the importance of storytelling through song in Madison County, NC. Barnhill is a seventh-generation singer-storyteller and shares how she learned the craft from her family members and the reputation of Madison County as the place of a rich singing-storytelling tradition. Barnhill has won several awards for her talent.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 10 Issue 35, August-September 1992,
p8
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