Record #:

39651

Author(s):

Conway, Cecelia

Abstract:

The Ward family has been in the Beech Mountain area since the Revolutionary War era, and had kept many of their traditions throughout the years. Traditions in the family consist of musicians and musical instrument makers, painters, clothing makers, and more.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 64 Issue 1 & 2, 2017, p13-17 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Community Traditions Award--NC Folklore Journal; Beech Mountain; Traditional music

Record #:

16238

Author(s):

Kurger, Steve; Conway, Cecelia

Abstract:

Clifford Glenn has skillfully made fretless mountain banjos and dulcimers in the Sugar Grove community since the 1950s. He comes for a unique family instrument-making tradition that stretches over four generations to the 19th-century. He also represents a large cultural tradition of the area around Beech Mountain and the Watauga River valley. In homes along the labyrinth of winding dirt roads in and around the area, musicians from several prolific families played old-time music, told Jack Tales, and made traditional crafts.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 54 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2007, p13-17 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Banjo makers; Glenn, Clifford Howard

Record #:

35965

Author(s):

Conway, Cecelia

Abstract:

For over ninety years, Julie Jarrell Lyons shared mountain folkways in the forms of singing, dancing, and telling tales.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1994, p73-75 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Traditional music; Storytellers; Folklife

Record #:

35904

Author(s):

Conway, Cecelia

Abstract:

Important contributions of African banjo tradition influenced Southern music in the genre of lively lyric and rhythmically complex, banjo songs and in the old-time string band tradition—an ensemble that honors democratic interaction and the synthesis between the Celtic-American fiddle and the African American banjo traditions.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 37 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1990, p73-80 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folk music