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    • Hoplight Ladies

    • Hoplight Ladies

    • Fiddle music;

    • Roger Howell fiddles to Phil Jamison's guitar accompaniment during a concert at Warren Wilson College's Sage Cafe. This concert features three local fiddlers. Roger grew up in Madison County, North Carolina. Phil teaches math at Warren Wilson. ...
    • Warren Wilson College
    • Uncle Henry

    • Uncle Henry

    • Fiddle music;

    • Tracy Schwarz plays fiddle at the Asheville Junction, a coffeehouse founded by Andy Cohen. Tracy is from York County, Pennsylvania. This tune is by Violet Hensley.
    • Warren Wilson College
    • church, Uncle Frank and Uncle Gilly (talking)

    • church, Uncle Frank and Uncle Gilly (talking)

    • Accordions; ; Spirituals; Interviews;

    • Frank Tolliver, Hiawatha Giles, and others talk with Kip Lornell about music in church and Frank's uncles who used to play accordion. They live in Nelson County, Virginia, where this takes place. Frank and his cousin, John, learned their...
    • Ferrum College
    • Uncle Homer Walker

    • Uncle Homer Walker

    • Banjos; Singing;

    • Photograph of "Uncle" Homer Walker playing banjo and singing at the National Folk Festival. Homer was born in Summers County, West Virginia, and moved to Glen Lyn in 1934.
    • Ferrum College
    • Hop Light Ladies

    • Hop Light Ladies

    • Banjos;

    • W. Scott Boatwright plays a tune on the banjo. He was raised in Coeburn, Virginia, and lives in Kingsport, Tennessee, where this was recorded.
    • Ferrum College
    • Miss McCloud's Reel

    • Miss McCloud's Reel

    • Square dancing; Fiddle music; Radio;

    • Eddie Arnold fiddles with the Golden West Cowboys performing a live square dance over Roanoke Country Radio station WDBJ. This is an example of the western swing, and cowboy music influence in the Appalachian region.
    • Ferrum College
    • Dance Alnight

    • Dance Alnight

    • Country Music--Kentucky; Country Musicians--Kentucky; Radio Programs--Kentucky; WHAS (Radio Station: Louisville, Ky.); Uncle Henry (Warren) and His Kentucky Mountaineers; Dance Alnight; Fiddle music;

    • Dance tune played by Uncle Henry (Warren) and His Kentucky Mountaineers on the Kentucky Play Party radio program on WHAS, Louisville, Kentucky 11-11-39. Includes commercial message for Kolorbak hair coloring.
    • Berea College
    • father and uncle (talking)

    • father and uncle (talking)

    • Banjos; Interviews;

    • Cammie Johns talks about her father and uncle, her banjo teachers with Kip Lornell. Jim Robertson (fiddle) and Jerry Dewitt (banjo) are also present and can be heard talking.
    • Ferrum College
    • Uncle Frank (talking)

    • Uncle Frank (talking)

    • Accordions; ; Interviews;

    • John Tolliver talks with Kip Lornell about playing songs on the accordion. John is visiting his family in Nelson County. He has moved to Washington D.C. John and his cousin, Frank, learned accordion from their uncle, Frank Tolliver.
    • Ferrum College
    • Uncle Dick Paris and the joint snake (talking)

    • Uncle Dick Paris and the joint snake (talking)

    • Interviews; Storytelling;

    • Raymond Sloan talks with Kip Lornell about his uncle, Dick Paris. He tells a story that Dick used to tell about a joint snake that assumes a rooster head and crows. This takes place at Raymond's home in Ferrum, Virginia. Raymond worked for the...
    • Ferrum College
    • Doc Saul and uncle Fletcher (talking)

    • Doc Saul and uncle Fletcher (talking)

    • Interviews; Storytelling;

    • Raymond Sloan talks with Kip Lornell about a man he knew who rode a white mule, and his uncle Fletcher. This takes place at Raymond's home in Ferrum, Virginia. Raymond worked for the WPA writer's project in the 1930's, collecting songs and...
    • Ferrum College
    • uncle in Hollywood (talking)

    • uncle in Hollywood (talking)

    • Radio; Humor;

    • Burke Barbour tells a joke about his uncle going to Hollywood and seeing Dolly Parton. This took place at Ferrum College's Folklife Festival, on a stage dedicated to the early country live radio musicians of Roanoke.
    • Ferrum College
    • joke about uncle (talking)

    • joke about uncle (talking)

    • Radio; Humor;

    • Burke Barbour tells a joke about his 96 year old uncle. This took place at Ferrum College's Folklife Festival, on a stage dedicated to the early country live radio musicians of Roanoke.
    • Ferrum College
    • banjo tunings (talking)

    • banjo tunings (talking)

    • Banjos; Interviews;

    • Uncle Homer Walker talks with Kip Lornell about playing banjo in different tunings. Homer was born in Summers County, West Virginia, and moved to Glen Lyn in 1934.
    • Ferrum College
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