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5442
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Mary Jane Prince Queen of Jackson County is a recipient of a North Carolina Folklore Society 2001 Brown-Hudson Award, for keeping alive the music traditions of her family - British ballads, American folksongs, and sacred songs - and passing them on to her children and grandchildren.
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5443
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Freeman Owle is a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. He received a North Carolina Folklore Society 2001 Brown-Hudson Award for his contributions to the continuation, appreciation, and study of North Carolina folklife.
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5445
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Performer of regional folksongs, writer, and scholar, Betty Smith received a North Carolina Folklore Society 2001 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award for her contribution to the study and appreciation of North Carolina folklife.
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6837
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The North Carolina Folklore Society awarded blues singer Luther Mayer a 2003 Brown-Hudson Award for a lifetime of work as one of North Carolina's most versatile musical performers. A Winston-Salem resident, Mayer began developing his musical style on his grandparent's farm in Clinton. Mayer performs not only blues but also gospel and popular music.
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6838
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The North Carolina Folklore Society awarded guitarist Fred David Olson of Asheboro a 2003 Brown-Hudson Award. Olson grew up in a musical household and began playing the guitar in the 1940s. Over the years he has played in a musical group that has included some of North Carolina's best-known folk musicians, such as violinist Lauchlin Shaw and dulcimer player Virgil Craven. Olson received the award for his lifetime of work as a performer and collector of North Carolina music.
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6839
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Dr. Mary Anne McDonald has worked for over twenty years to document and present North Carolina folklife. Her work covers a wide variety of traditional cultures, forms of presentation, and different professional settings. The North Carolina Folklore Society awarded McDonald a 2003 Brown-Hudson Award for preserving, researching, and disseminating North Carolina's folk culture.
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7290
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Earl and Max Carawan are third generation musicians from rural Hyde County. Rufus Carawan, their grandfather, encouraged all his family members to learn to play the banjo, fiddle, and guitar for square dances and local gatherings. For years the brothers played old-time music, bluegrass, and early country music. They received a 2004 Brown-Hudson award for traditional artists for continuing a musical legacy in their part of the state.
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7291
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Connie Mason has been on the staff of the North Carolina Maritime Museum for fifteen years as a curator of history. Her numerous responsibilities include folklorist, historian, musician, songwriter, and the producer of folklife programs, such as Traditional Trades and Pastimes and Coastal Folkways Day. She was nominated for a Brown-Hudson Award by the Maritime Museum and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum. She received the award “for her generous and imaginative efforts in collecting, interpreting, and exhibiting Down East folklife for the people of North Carolina.”
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8385
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The North Carolina Folklore Society has awarded Eugenia Cecelia Conway a 2005 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award for her forty-five years of work “exploring and promoting the special excellences of folk musicians, important regional traditions, and the African American influences on the development of Southern and mountain banjo traditions.” She has produced a body of scholarly works, audio recordings, videos, and films that preserve and document notable performances and interviews with important traditional artists.
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8386
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Although born in New York City, Paul Brown developed his love of traditional Southern music from exposure to it by his mother, who was from an old Virginia family. He taught himself to play the banjo and received a National Endowment of the Arts grant to study banjo with one of North Carolina's great banjo players. In 1980, he moved to Mt. Airy permanently. He worked on the local radio station and at NPR in Washington, D.C. Both places gave him a platform from which to share his love of traditional music and the people who perform it. Brown received a 2005 Brown-Hudson Award for a lifetime of devotion to the people who create and keep alive Southern string-band music.
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8388
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The Capital City Five formed in 1944. Two of the founding members are still with the group, and there has been very little turnover in the sixty-two years they have sung together. The “newest” singing member joined in 1966. Musically, they are firmly rooted in tradition, drawing from old hymns and spirituals, early recordings, and songs learned at home during childhood. The group maintains a busy schedule, performing across North Carolina and from Atlanta to Boston. The Capital City Five received a 2005 Brown-Hudson Award for “their musical excellence, artistic integrity, traditional base, dedication to faith, activity as performers, community involvement, and longevity as a group.”
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8500
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The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award was established in 1970, and Dorothea and Janette Moser are the first folklorists who come from two generations of the same family to receive the award. Their father, Artus Moser, received the award in 1972. Like their father, the daughters went to college, taught college courses about the Appalachian traditions, and collected, preserved, and performed the material of their Appalachian heritage.
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8538
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The North Carolina Folklore Society has awarded Gary Carden a 2006 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award. Over the years Carden has become a spokesperson for the Appalachian region where he was raised. Growing up in the home of his grandparents, he was steeped from his earliest years in the Appalachian mountain lore, culture, and language. Carden received the award for evoking his native region in drama and storytelling.