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Folklife Database: Recording of Jean Ritchie concert at the Stephen Foster Center
Item Type:
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Sound
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| Series Number/Title |
S1576 |
| Container |
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| Item |
Audio recording |
| Item ID Number |
T77-262 |
| Item Title |
Recording of Jean Ritchie concert at the Stephen Foster Center |
| Date/Date Range |
12/05/1976 |
| Collector/Fieldworker |
Bulger, Peggy A.
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| Tradition Bearer |
Ritchie, Jean, 1922-
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| Ethnicity/Nationality |
Anglo American
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| Genre/Occupation |
Musicians
Singers
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| Subject |
Music performance
Performing arts
Autoharp music
Dulcimer music
Musicians
Old time music
String instruments
Singers
Singing
A capella singing
Concerts
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| Place Name |
White Springs (Fla.)
Hamilton County (Fla.)
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| Corporate/Conference Name |
Stephen Foster Center
Florida Folklife Program
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| General Note/Comment Field |
One reel to reel recording.
Images from the concert can be found in S 1576, volume 1: slides S77-78 through S77-95. Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky to a family that preserved and sang many old time (mountain) songs -- many dating back to England and Scotland -- numbering by Ritchie’s count to well over 300. Raised within the Appalachian-based musical tradition, Ritchie graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1946, after which she moved to New York City as a social worker. While there, she became involved in the emerging folk revival scene, performing the old family songs on her dulcimer and autoharp. She recorded for the newly-created Electra Records, starting in 1952. By the 1960s, she was a well-respected and sought after performer and authority of Appalachian music. By 1976, she and her husband, photographer George Pickow, started their own label, Greenhays Records. Many of the songs performed here appear on their first self-released album: None But One. For other Ritchie recordings, see reels T78-312 through T78-314; T79-1.
The song "Nottamun Town" by Jean Ritchie
is available
on the Bluegrass & Old Time Music page.
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