This spring the Great Smoky Mountains Association released a new podcast mini-series, Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music. The series, they write, which is hosted by Drs. William Turner and… Read More →
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Volume 15, Number 3
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- Elliot County (KY) Fiddlers Convention
- Clifftop (WV)
- Deer Creek Fiddlers’ Convention (Westminster, MD)
- Hammons Family Memorial Fiddle and Banjo Contests (Marlinton, WV)
- Mountain Dance and Folk Festival (Asheville, NC)
- Banjo Gathering (Baltimore, MD)
- New books on old-time music
- In Quarantine
- fRoots Radio
Attic #21: Fiddle and Guitar
One of the popular, recurring topics of discussion, debate, disagreement, and disputation among fans of old-time music is the question of when guitars began to be used as accompanying instruments… Read More →
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Y’all Come: The Ballad of Big Jim Folsom
In March of 1962, a new political season was gearing up in Alabama, and so-called “hillbilly” music was everywhere. “It has gotten so you can’t run for governor in Alabama,”… Read More →
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Attic #23: Many Strings, No Neck
All images from the collection of Paul Wells. Organologists—scholars who study and classify musical instruments—lump them into large, broad generic groupings. All stringed instruments, for example, are classed as “chordophones,”… Read More →
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