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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
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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
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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,…
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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,…
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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,…