Record #:

5579

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

Joe and Odell Thompson of Alamance County received a 1991 N.C. Folk Heritage Award for continuing the African-American stringband tradition. The cousins play banjo and fiddle together, a combination that once provided much of the South's dance music.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 44 Issue 1 & 2, 1997, p51-52 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American musicians; Thompson, Joe, 1918-2012; Thompson, Odell, 1911-1994