Winter Folk Festival recordings, 1976

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Winter Folk Festival recordings, 1976

1976

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70088/

Recordings of concerts and workshops in dance, banjo, cajun music, and fiddle, as well as an interview with one of the performers. Included are cajun music from Louisiana; old-time country music from Lexington, Va.; blues from Union County, S.C.; blues piano from Alabama; blues guitar from Bowling Green, Va.; old-time country guitar music from Madison County, N.C.; traditional music from Orange County, N.C.; old-time country music from West Virginia and Virginia; ballads, Irish music, shape note singing, tale telling; and other performances. Among the performers are Tommy Jarrell, Dewey Balfa, Mike Seeger, Howard Armstrong, Peg Leg Sam (Arthur Jackson, 1911-1977), Big Chief Ellis, John Cephas, Fred Cockerham, the Red Clay Ramblers, Hazel Dickens, and Alice Gerrard. The 1976 Winter Folk Festival was a folk music festival held 20-24 January in Chapel Hill, N.C. The festival featured concerts, workshops, films, and jam sessions of folk music of the southern United States, including old-time, blues, Cajun, and string band music. Cecelia "Cece" Conway and Jan Schochet, white graduate folklore students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conceived of the festival, which was sponsored by UNC's Carolina Union and hosted at various venues across campus as well as the larger Chapel Hill and Carrboro community. According to the Daily Tar Hell, the festival schedule was as follows: Thursday, January 22, 1976: 12pm: Gallery display of traditional folk items in the Union's South Lounge; 1 and 3pm: Films, Spent it All and This World is Not My Home, in the Great Hall; 7:30pm: "Folksongs in Transition", a discussion and mini-concert led by Mike Seeger in the Great Hall. Friday, January 23, 1976: 11:30am: Informal music on the indoor Union balcony; 12:15pm: Cajun workshop led by Tommy Thompson in the Union South Lounge; 1pm: Banjo Workshop: "Black White Interchange" led by Tommy Thompson on the Union balcony; 2:30pm: dance workshop: Clogging and Country Dance in the Great Hall; 7:30pm: Concert with Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard, Tommy Jarrell, Big Chief Ellis and John Sephus, Red Clay Ramblers, Apple Chill Cloggers and the Balfa Brothers; 10pm: Festival party and informal jamming. Saturday, January 24, 1976: 1pm: Fiddle workshop "Introduction to Various Fiddle Styles" and "Rural Folk and Urban Apprentices" on the Union balcony; 2:30pm: Singing workshop led by Hazel [Dickens] and Alice [Gerrard] in the Union Music Gallery; 3pm: Blues workshop in the Union South Lounge; 3:30pm: Mini-fiddlers convention in the Great Hall; 7:30pm: Concert with Roberts & Barrand, peg Leg Sam, Alice and Hazel, Mike Seeger, Mt. Airy musicians, Balfa Brothers, Red Clay Ramblers, Green Grass Cloggers, Martin, Bogan and the Armstrongs. Sunday, January 25, 1976: 6:30 and 9pm: Films, Spent it All, This World is Not My Home, and premiere of Musical Holdouts by John Cohen in Great Hall.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7179847

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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Gerrard, Alice, 1934-

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Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011

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Armstrong, Howard, 1909-2003

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Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009

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