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Bluegrass festivals -- Kentucky.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lukas Murphy Bluegrass Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0156 SAA 159
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of bluegrass music performance recordings from the Cincinnati / Dayton, Ohio area, Kentucky, and Virginia, 1973-1980. The recordings were donated to Berea by Lukas Murphy. They were made by his father, Ron Murphy who provided the sound for the events. Venues include bluegrass music festivals, college campus concerts, and bars. These recordings help document the thriving bluegrass music scene that had developed in the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton,...
Dates: Other: 1973-1980

McLain Family Band Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0086 SAA 086
Abstract The McLain Family Band came to be as the result of an interest in Bluegrass music developed by Raymond K. McLain (1928-2003) while Director of Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky where he had moved in 1954 with his wife, Betty.  This interest owed much to both family influence and formal academic training.  McLain’s mother had been director of Southern Folk Life Studies at the University of Alabama. He had majored in music theory at Denison University and done graduate work...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1989; Other: Date acquired: 12/14/2001