Davis, Amy

Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and in 1998 received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has recorded a cassette with Kentucky fiddler Herstel Flynn and has also performed with the Hushpuppies, a North Carolina-based old-time group. She conducted fieldwork for the Folklife Section of the North Carolina Arts Council's Blue Ridge Music Trail Project and researched and written about country music communities and traditions. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. From 1999 to 2001, she Davis was folklife assistant at the Southern Folklife Collection.