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- Subject contains "ballad"
[Berea President Frost & Reed Organs]
Primary Performer/Group: Jameson, Gladys
Description: Long time Berea College music professor Gladys Jameson recounts Berea President Frost's preference for teaching use of the reed organ as part of Berea's music education efforts
[Grey Cock, The]
Primary Performer/Group: Douglas, Daron
Description: Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
[Hearing a mountain ballad for the first time]
Primary Performer/Group: Jameson, Gladys
Description: Long time Berea College music professor Gladys Jameson describes her first time hearing a mountian ballad sung by a student from Breathitt County, Kentucky in 1916
[My Love's Like a Red, Red Rose]
Primary Performer/Group: Edwards, Barbara
Description: Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
[Preacher and the Bear]
Primary Performer/Group: Lozier, Mary
Description: Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance
Always Been A Rambler
Primary Performer/Group: Gladden, Texas
Description: Sister and brother Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith were born in Saltville, (Smyth & Washington Counties) Virginia (1895 and 1897 respectively). Texas had a known repertoire of some two hundred songs. Hobart was a multi-instrumentalist (fiddle, guitar,…
As I Walked Out On A Cold Winter Night
Primary Performer/Group: Ritchie, Jean, 1922-
Description: Jean Ritchie is a Kentucky born folksinger who preserved and passed on the strong musical traditions of her Perry County family. She moved to work in New York City in 1946 after college graduation with a degree in Social Work. There opportunity,…
As I Walked Out On A Cold Winter Night
Primary Performer/Group: Ritchie, Jean, 1922-
Description: Jean Ritchie is a Kentucky born folksinger who preserved and passed on the strong musical traditions of her Perry County family. She moved to work in New York City in 1946 after college graduation with a degree in Social Work. There opportunity,…
Baby Fingers
Primary Performer/Group: Marks, Phyllis
Description: Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music Performance