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Record #:
1660
Author(s):
Bernhardt, Jack
Abstract:
Mebane native Odell Thompson, North Carolina's last active black banjoist, was killed on April 28, 1994, when he was struck by a car. He had performed earlier that day at the Merle Watson Memorial Festival.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 40 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1993, p97-98, por
Subject(s):
Banjoists; African American musicians; Thompson, Odell, 1911-1994
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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
Subject(s):
African American musicians; Thompson, Joe, 1918-2012; Thompson, Odell, 1911-1994
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