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29857
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David Weintraub, filmmaker and executive director of The Center for Cultural Preservation, has a new film documentary unearthing Western North Carolina’s musical roots. Weintraub says the film reveals a textured history of Scots-Irish, African, and Cherokee influences on Appalachian mountain music.
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23987
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Murphy introduces readers to musician David Holt, whose tunes reveal information about music and life in the Southern Appalachians. Holt created the Appalachian Music Program at Warren Wilson College in 1975.
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8058
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North Carolina native Riley Baugus is a fine old-time musician who reveres the music of the Southern Appalachians. The first instrument he mastered was the fiddle, followed by the guitar and banjo. Baugus was one of the artists who had an important role in recreating the 19th-century music heard on the soundtrack of the movie, COLD MOUNTAIN.
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3350
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Held each summer since 1992, at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, The Swannanoa Gathering holds week-long sessions that study the musical and folk heritage of the Southern Appalachians.
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35551
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Gathered from letters and his biography, Owen Wister was enraptured by the beauty in the mountainous regions of North Carolina.
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35028
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A student who went to Chapel Hill for football brought with him a tune from the mountains where he was from; several stanzas from the song are included.
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30097
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Folk music and dance in Appalachia is still strong. To keep the old songs, stories, and dances from being lost to new trends in music and dance, the Asheville annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival was developed. And the Festival has resulted in the growth of interest in the old forms of entertainment.
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14724
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The 18th annual Asheville Mountain Dance and Folk Festival helps preserve the great reservoir of folk music and dance in the Southern Appalachians.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 12 Issue 21, Oct 1944, p1-2, 18-19, f
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