Record #:

5804

Author(s):

Hanchett, Tom

Abstract:

The Briarhoppers, a long-time performing group on Charlotte radio station WBT, received a 2002 North Carolina Folklore Society Brown-Hudson Award. The string band, organized in 1935, has performed for 67 years. The group is seen by musicologists as \"an important link between the music of the pre-industrial South and the full-blown commercial country sounds of the late twentieth century.\"

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2002, p116-118, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Briarhoppers (Musical group)