Browse Collections (55 total)

This collection documents the radio performing career of theCashQuartetfrom Rockcastle County, Kentucky during the 1950-1960s. The collection consists…

Records document the programming and historyoftheCelebrationofTraditionalmusic. Collection includes brochures, print materials, and event posters.See…

The Curley Collins collection documents the musician's career with news clippings, radio station program listings, and advertisements; photographs;…

This collection consists of audio cassette recordings of interviews with Dewey Shepherd and of his singing and fiddling performances made in 1993.…

These are audio recorded interviews that document thehistoryof theDisputantacommunity in northern Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Also included in the…

Papers of Fiddlin' Doc Roberts (b. 1897, d. 1978), a fiddler born in Madison County, Kentucky; among the state's first traditional musicians to be…

Ed Ward was a private record and tape collector, poet, prose writer, and community historian who lived at Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky. The…

This collection consists of early 1960s home recordings of fiddle tunes played by Elijah Hill. They were provided in 2008 by his granddaughter Anne…

The programs in this collection, entitled "Highway to Heaven," date mostly from 1950 and were recorded for a Frankfort, Kentucky radio station. An…

Field recordings and West Virginia Folk Festival stage performances recorded by Fern Rollyson in the late 1950s and at various times during the 1960s.

This collection consists of 213 non-commercial audio cassettes and seven open reel tape recordings ofLedford's radio program,Kentucky Traditionswhich…

The Hutchins Library - IndianaUniversityFolktale Workshop was a three-week research residency held in Berea July 7-26,2003. It was sponsored jointly…