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Title	Byard Ray Festival Association photographs
Author	Johnson, Betty Sue
Description	The Byard Ray Festival Association was established by Betty Sue Johnson who produced the festival for ten of its eleven years. She was a nurse practitioner, educator, and administrator at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-five years. Among her professional accomplishments were the establishments of three rural health programs. Johnson, raised near Asheville, NC, she founded and produced the first Byard Ray Festival in 1977 as a way to preserve the older musical styles that had been passed from one generation to the next since the 1800s in the North Carolina mountains and to promote Byard Ray, a fiddle player from the Laurel section of Madison County, NC. The collection consists of correspondence; financial, grand and legal records; festival planning documents, program and performer information, publicity, and photographs. The records document the annual production of the Byard Ray Festival between 1977 and 1987 by Betty Sue Johnson and her efforts to make the festival financially self-sufficient. 22aThe photographs include musicians, storytellers, and support staff both on and off stage during festivals.
Subject	Asheville, North Carolina Songs & music Festivals Asheville, North Carolina
DLA Category	Music
Holding Library	Mars Hill College
Identifier	BRFA1
Publisher	Arts & Culture; Music;
Rights	For educational purposes only.
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Description	The Byard Ray Festival Association was established by Betty Sue Johnson who produced the festival for ten of its eleven years. She was a nurse practictioner, educator, and administrator at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-five years. Among her professional accomplishments were the establishments of three rural health programs. Johnson, raised near Asheville, NC, she founded and produced the first Byard Ray Festival in 1977 as a way to preserve the older musical styles that had been passed from one generation to the next since the 1800s in the North Carolina mountains and to promote Byard Ray, a fiddle player from the Laurel section of Madison County, NC. The collection consists of correspondence; financial, grand and legal records; festival planning documents, program and performer information, publicity, and photographs. The records document the annual production of the Byard Ray Festival between 1977 and 1987 by Betty Sue Johnson and her efforts to make the festival financially self-sufficient.
Holding Library	Mars Hill College

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