Collection, Part A, 1976.

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Collection, Part A, 1976.

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

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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Wallin, Berzilla

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Ray, Byard

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Paul, Mary C.

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Norton, Dellie

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Wallin, Cas

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Cockerham, Fred, 1905-1980

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Ball, Orna, 1907-2000

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Wiseman, Scotty, 1909-1981

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Country music performer. Born November 8, 1909. Died January 31, 1981. Full name: Scott Greene Wiseman. Career most active 1930s-1940s. Singer, songwriter, banjo player, and recording artist. With his wife "Lulu Belle" (real name: Myrtle Eleanor Cooper; Born December 24, 1913; Died February 8, 1999) formed the country duo Lulu Belle & Scotty. Popular performer on the WLS National Barn Dance. Songwriting credits include the country classics "Mountain Dew," and "Have I Told You Lately That I L...

Paul, Grayden

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Ghisalberti, Giacomo.

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Jarrell, Tommy, 1901-1985

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McMillon, Bobby

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Anglo-American traditional singer, banjo and guitar player, and storyteller from Kings Creek, N.C. From the description of Collection, 1978. WorldCat record id: 27043504 Born in Lenoir, N.C., in 1951, Bobby McMillon has performed professionally since 1978 as a singer, musician, and storyteller in the Appalachian tradition. As a performer, he is best known for his ballad and story renditions about Frankie Silver, to whom he is distantly related. He has also collected intervie...

Terra Ceia Christian Reformed Church Singers.

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Ball, E. C. (Estil Cortez), 1913-1978

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Wiseman, Lulu Belle

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Reed, Ola Belle, 1916-2002

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Musician Ola Belle Reed was born in Grassy Creek, N.C. As a teenager, she performed with an early version of the North Carolina Ridge Runners. In 1949, she married Bud Reed. They formed the New River Gang, with Alex Campbell, and operated New River Ranch, a popular country music park near Rising Sun, Md. In the early 1960s, they moved to Sunset Park, Md., and broadcast a weekly show from their store in Oxford, Pa. During the 1970s, Ola Belle Reed and family performed at many folk festivals. ...

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

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The 1976 North Carolina Folklife Festival, a three-day festival featuring performers from the mountain, piedmont, and coastal regions of North Carolina, was held 3-5 July 1976 at West Point on the Eno in Durham, N.C. From the description of Collection, Part A, 1976. WorldCat record id: 27188937 ...

Ramsey, Evelyn Michele Eaton

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Proffitt, Frank, Jr., 1946-2005

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