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Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Aisha Ivey Fiddle Music Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0164 SAA 166
Abstract Aisha Ivey’s research involves documenting the migration of American old time fiddling from the Appalachian region throughout the southeastern United States. Ivey’s research also focuses on documenting stylistic variables, bowing patterns, repertoire, influences, and learning styles in an effort to understand the dynamics of the tradition's migration. Ivey played her first fiddle tune at age 10. She continued formal music studies into college and graduate school and has focused on Irish...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2012-2013

Celebration of Traditional Music

 Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract

Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -

Dewey Shepherd Collection

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0140 SAA 140
Abstract Dewey Shepherd (b. 1905) was a singer and fiddler from Floyd County, Kentucky where he lived for many years in the David community. The recordings in this collection include self-made ones by Mr. Shepherd and those made by Steve Green, including interviews of Shepherd, in 1990. His music combines elements drawn from eastern Kentucky religious music, blues, traditional ballad singing, and instrumental folk music. His repertoire includes old fiddle and banjo songs like "Rocky...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1986-1993

First Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0297
Scope and Contents First Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddler's Convention, June 11-13, 1971. (There were also Guitar and Band competitions.) Sunday morning of the third day, June 13th, included a show by Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys. During the show, Roy Acuff talks with John Lair and Glen Pennington about country music and Renfro Valley history.CONTESTANTS: Bob Baker, Jesse Baker, Ray Brown, Wally Bryson, Charlie Collins, Charles A. Corns, Cumberland Mountain Boys, Sam Davis, Jack...
Dates: June 11, 12, and 13 1971

Fourth Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0298
Scope and Contents Fourth Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention July 5, 6, 7, 1974 Contestans: Tilly Adkins, Willie Adkins, Alfred Bailey, Bill Sparks, Ed Blake, Bobbie Blays, Howard Blays, Bluegrass Rejects, Bluegrass Travelers, Franklin Bowles, Arthur Breeze, Opal Breeze, Terry Bronck, Richard Campbell Barbara Coons, Coleman Cornelison, Tex Corpy, David Edmundson, Suzanne Edmundson, Howdy Forrester, Frank Gardner, Get Togethers, Kelly...
Dates: July 5-7, 1974

John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
Abstract John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School.  As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.   The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games.  Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940