The Southern Folklife Collection is an archival resource dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating traditional and vernacular music, art, and culture related to the American South.
Information
- Location:
- Chapel Hill, NC, 27514-8890
- Phone:
- (919) 962-1345
- Mon - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Sat:
- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Events
1 upcoming eventSee All
- Work’s Many Voices: A Memorial...
University of North Carolina at Cha...
Saturday, November 21 at 8:30am
Photos
2 of 10 albumsSee All
Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz ConcertCreated about 7 months ago
Archie GreenUpdated about 8 months ago
4 of 6 fan photosSee All
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United Tastes - Preserving New Orleans Culture One Po’ Boy Sandwich at a Time - Series - NYTimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
This month, New Orleans is having a party for the po’ boy, the city’s signature and some say endangered sandwich.
Southern Folklife Collection Essential listening!
Marcus Martin: When I Get My New House Done, Western North Carolina Fiddle Tunes and Songs - NC Folk
Source: www.ncfolk.org
Marcus Martin, one of the finest old-time musicians from western North Carolina, had a legendary fiddling style. The Southern Folklife Collection presents rare and unreleased 1940s field recordings of ...
Southern Folklife Collection Hot off the press! The SFC's new book, All This for a Song by Norm Cohen
Source: www.lib.unc.edu
We are happy to announce the publication of Norm Cohen’s All This for a Song, the second volume in the Southern Folklife Collection’s Vernacular Music Reference Shelf series. All This for ...
Southern Folklife Collection Also recommended: vintage live from the WPAQ archives
Source: www.5-string.com
This CD captures a memorable night of music with one of the South's most powerful string bands. On February 15, 1984, The Smokey Valley Boys gathered at the historic mountain music radio station WPAQ in Mount Airy, NC to do some recording. ...
Southern Folklife Collection Recommended listening: James Brown's Live at the Garden
Source: www.lib.unc.edu
George “Goober” Lindsey, promoting his 1968 album “Goober Sings” at KBBQ radio in Burbank, California. He’s flanked by KBBQ music director Larry Scott, Don Grierson of Capitol ...
Southern Folklife Collection Recommended reading: Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz's blog.
Source: chrisstrachwitz.blogspot.com
: I am curious if anyone will find or read this - so let me know if this might be of some amusement or interest to anyone!Recently I heard three local Bay Area bands at the new and super modern Freight ...
Source: www.nytimes.com
Mr. D’Lugoff’s nightclub, the Village Gate, was home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi.
Source: www.lib.unc.edu
Pictured is farmer and musician Louis Dotson of Lorman, Mississippi, photographed by Bill Ferris in 1973, constructing a “one-string guitar” on the wall of his front porch. The traditional ...
Source: www.cnn.com
Turn back time, more than 90 years, to a cold case that won't gather dust.
Southern Folklife Collection Bill Ferris on NPR's All Things Considered
Source: www.npr.org
Driving his Chevrolet Nova up and down Highway 61 in Mississippi, William Ferris stopped at churches and juke joints and penitentiaries to record the music he found. In his new book, Give My Poor Heart Ease, Ferris explores the legacy of the "The Blues Highway."
Southern Folklife Collection
Symposium 9am-5pm.
Evening concert 6:30pm-8:30pm.
Pleasants Assembly Room, 2nd Floor, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Event is free but requires RSVP. Space limited to 150 participants.
RSVP to Liza Terll (lterll@email.unc.edu)
Co-sponsored by the UNC Folklore Program, Southern Folklife Collectio...n and the Friends of the Library.
Schedule:
8:30-9:00am Opening Reception (Coffee, Juice, Pastries)
2nd Floor Lobby, Wilson Library
9:00-9:15am Opening remarks
Patricia Sawin (Associate Professor Dept. of Anthropology, Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Coordinator of the Folklore Program in the Department of American Studies)
Daniel Patterson (Kenan Professor Emeritus of English and former chair of the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill)
9:15-10:45 Laborlore Panel
All Panelists are recipients of the Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship:
Tim Prizer – MA in Folklore, PHD student in Anthropology
Brendan Greaves - MA in Folklore, Public Art and Community Design Director at NC Arts Council.
Janet Hoshour – MA student in Folklore.
Kieran Taylor, Assistant professor of history, The Citadel, Charleston, S.C. (moderator)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote address
Norm Cohen, folk music researcher and author of books All This for a Song, and Long Steel Rail: the Railroad in American Folksong.
12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:00-1:30 Film Screening:
I Am A Man. A documentary on the sanitation workers whose labor movement led to Rev. Martin Luther King's visit to Memphis in 1968. Film was co-produced by John Hubble, recipient of the Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship.
1:30-3:00 Music Panel:
Pat Huber, Associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and author of the book Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South. Recipient of the Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship
Jack Wright, producer of the CD Music Of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields.
David Whisnant, owner of Primary Source History Services, retired UNC professor and author of All that is Native and Fine.
John Hubble, creative director of Old Bridge Media. Memphis, TN.
3:00-3:30 Coffee break (coffee, water)
3:30-5:00 Remembrance Panel
Adam Machado, Independent researcher and writer. Treasurer of the Arhoolie Foundation.
Robert Cantwell, UNC Townsend Ludington Professor of American Studies and author of If Beale Street Could Talk and When We Were Good.
Julie Ardery, co editor of rural blog the Daily Yonder and author of the book The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth Century Folk Art.
Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records.
Evening reception 5:00-6:30pm
Salterelli Room, 3rd Floor Wilson Library
Concert: 6:30-8:30pm:
Elizabeth LaPrelle (traditional ballad singer)
Stephen Wade with Mike Craver (old-time music)
New North Carolina Ramblers (string band)
Pleasants Family Assembly Room. 2nd Floor Wilson Library.
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Evening concert 6:30pm-8:30pm.
Pleasants Assembly Room, 2nd Floor, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Event is free but requires RSVP. Space limited to 150 participants.
RSVP to Liza Terll (lterll@email.unc.edu)
Co-sponsored by the UNC Folklore Program, Southern Folklife Collectio...n and the Friends of the Library.
Schedule:
8:30-9:00am Opening Reception (Coffee, Juice, Pastries)
2nd Floor Lobby, Wilson Library
9:00-9:15am Opening remarks
Patricia Sawin (Associate Professor Dept. of Anthropology, Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Coordinator of the Folklore Program in the Department of American Studies)
Daniel Patterson (Kenan Professor Emeritus of English and former chair of the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill)
9:15-10:45 Laborlore Panel
All Panelists are recipients of the Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship:
Tim Prizer – MA in Folklore, PHD student in Anthropology
Brendan Greaves - MA in Folklore, Public Art and Community Design Director at NC Arts Council.
Janet Hoshour – MA student in Folklore.
Kieran Taylor, Assistant professor of history, The Citadel, Charleston, S.C. (moderator)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote address
Norm Cohen, folk music researcher and author of books All This for a Song, and Long Steel Rail: the Railroad in American Folksong.
12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:00-1:30 Film Screening:
I Am A Man. A documentary on the sanitation workers whose labor movement led to Rev. Martin Luther King's visit to Memphis in 1968. Film was co-produced by John Hubble, recipient of the Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship.
1:30-3:00 Music Panel:
Pat Huber, Associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and author of the book Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South. Recipient of the Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship
Jack Wright, producer of the CD Music Of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields.
David Whisnant, owner of Primary Source History Services, retired UNC professor and author of All that is Native and Fine.
John Hubble, creative director of Old Bridge Media. Memphis, TN.
3:00-3:30 Coffee break (coffee, water)
3:30-5:00 Remembrance Panel
Adam Machado, Independent researcher and writer. Treasurer of the Arhoolie Foundation.
Robert Cantwell, UNC Townsend Ludington Professor of American Studies and author of If Beale Street Could Talk and When We Were Good.
Julie Ardery, co editor of rural blog the Daily Yonder and author of the book The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth Century Folk Art.
Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records.
Evening reception 5:00-6:30pm
Salterelli Room, 3rd Floor Wilson Library
Concert: 6:30-8:30pm:
Elizabeth LaPrelle (traditional ballad singer)
Stephen Wade with Mike Craver (old-time music)
New North Carolina Ramblers (string band)
Pleasants Family Assembly Room. 2nd Floor Wilson Library.
Read More
Time:8:30AM Saturday, November 21st
Location:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Southern Folklife Collection More on the new release and audio of first song on the box "Puppy Love."
Source: www.lib.unc.edu
Today Sony Legacy will be releasing a new Dolly Parton box set, appropriately entitled “Dolly”. The four-CD, 99-track set is the first cross-label, career spanning Dolly Parton retrospective.
