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Twenty Dollar Non-Blues: Cece Conway—Folklorist, Organizer of Festivals, and Lovable Colleague

Record #:
8385
Abstract:
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.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005, p55-59, por, bibl