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North Carolina Folklife Festival (1976 : Durham, N.C.). Collection, Part A, 1976.

Title: Collection, Part A, 1976.

Recordings of the North Carolina Folklife Festival of 1976. Included are recordings of these Anglo-American performers from North Carolina: ballad singers Dellie Norton, Evelyn Ramsey, Berzilla Wallin, and Cass Wallin of Madison County; singers Grayden and Mary Paul of Carteret County; singer and storyteller Bobby McMillon of Caldwell County; singers E.C. Ball (1913-1978) and Orna Ball (1907- ) of Ashe County; singer, banjo and dulcimer player Frank Proffitt, Jr., of Wautauga County; early country singers Scotty and Lulu Belle Wiseman; Dutch psalm singers the Terra Ceia Christian Reformed Church Singers of Beaufort; Italian singer Father Giacomo Ghisalberti of Cumberland County; fiddle and banjo players Fred Cockerham (1901- ) and Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985) of Surry County; string band the Appalachian Folk with fiddler Byard Ray of Madison County; and Ola Belle Reed and family of Ashe County.

ArchivalResource: 90 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188937 View

Kenkel, Kenneth Russell. Collection, 1984-1985.

Title: Collection, 1984-1985.

Collection of interviews and recorded performances including an interview with Bobby McMillon, Anglo-American singer and storyteller, of Lenoir, N.C., about his traditional music and storytelling; an interview with Virginia Sykes Perry, Anglo-American of Orange County, N.C., about the folk house (I-house) she grew up in; a recording of Lauchlin Shaw, Anglo-American old-time fiddler, of Harnett County, N.C., playing old-time fiddle with an accompanying string band for the radio broadcast-CCTV Folklife Radio Series; a recording of a live concert of Frank Proffitt, Jr., Anglo-American singer and musician, of Morganton, N.C., playing old- time music on the banjo and dulcimer and singing; and interviews with Proffitt about his musicianship.

ArchivalResource: 14 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27190452 View

Oxford, Cheryl. Cheryl Oxford collection, 1981-1988 [manuscript].

Title: Cheryl Oxford collection, 1981-1988 [manuscript].

Materials Oxford collected and produced in conjunction with her Ph.D. dissertation, "They Call Him Lucky Jack: 3 Performance-Centered Case Studies of Storytelling in Watauga County, N.C." The focus of this research was the stories and performance paradigms of three traditional Appalachian Jack tale storytellers from North Carolina: Ray Hicks, Stanley Hicks, and Marshall Ward. Other regional tellers of Jack tales, both traditional and revival, including W. W. Rowland, Richard Chase, Frank Proffitt, Jr., Gwenda LedBetter, Doug Elliott, Orville Hicks, and Fred Armstrong-Park, were also documented as part of her research. The bulk of the materials are audio and video recordings of public performances and interviews, which include storytelling. Also included are story transcripts, published articles by Cheryl Oxford, and a copy of her dissertation. Most of the fieldwork was conducted during the summers of 1981 and 1982, with fieldwork and performance documentation continuing until 1988. The collection provides rich documentation of specific stories and storytelling performances by North Carolina regional storytellers and examples of the same story told by different tellers in the same region and the same story told by the same teller on different occasions. Audio and video recordings also contain a wealth of material on Appalachian traditional medicine, ghost stories, music, family genealogy, and folk customs and beliefs. Included is a rare performance of "Jack in the Lions' Den" by Marshall Ward.

ArchivalResource: 95 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52864136 View

Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley collection, 1985-2016

Title: Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley collection, 1985-2016

The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley (commonly known as the Eno River Association) is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to conserve and protect the natural, cultural, and historic resources of North Carolina's Eno River basin. Since its inception in 1965, the Association has worked to protect the environmental resources around the river and its tributaries, promoting education and advocacy through environmental and community programs, including a hike series and the long-running annual Festival for the Eno. The collection consists primarily of audio recordings, including interviews, live performances, radio broadcasts, and audition tapes related to the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley and their annual Festival for the Eno. Conducted by Dave Cook in 2002, the interviews found in the collection are with Association members who recall their experiences growing up near the Eno River and participating in the preservation and enjoyment of the local environment. Interviewees include Pat Bailey, Donald N. Cox, Holger Nygard, Thomas C. Ellis, Hazel Cash, John Blackfeather Jeffries, John A. Scarlett, and Mary Scarlett. The collection contains affiliated transcripts, 2000-2002, for some of these interviews as well as for interviews for which there is no corresponding recording. The majority of the audio recordings found in the collection relate to the annual Festival for the Eno and consist of live festival recordings, 1985-2010, radio broadcasts, 1995-1998, and performers' audition tapes, 1985-2010. Notable performers featured on the live recordings include Etta Baker, Shirley Caesar, Richard "Big Boy" Henry, Algia Mae Hinton, John Dee Holeman, Bobby McMillon, Tift Merritt, Frank Proffitt, Red Clay Ramblers, Ralph Stanley, Joe Thompson, Doc Watson, and Merle Watson. Also included in the collection are videotapes, circa 1997, containing footage of the festival, promotional posters, 1987-2016, from select years of the festival, and ephemera found with the performers' audition tapes.

ArchivalResource: 1275 items (9.5 linear ft.)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20415/ View