Southern Folklife Collection
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.
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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
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Archie Green SymposiumCreated about a month ago
Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz ConcertCreated about 8 months ago

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Southern Folklife Collection

 
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Just Like Dancing, With Sousaphones!

Halftime Can Be Prime Time at Ohio State - NYTimes.com
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The marching band is an American folk art with music and bodies creating spectacles of design, movement and sound.
Yesterday at 4:41pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail? « Field Trip South
www.lib.unc.edu
Sat at 7:23pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

Vic Chesnutt, Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com
Mr. Chesnutt, a quadriplegic who had a cracked, small voice, sang with disarming candor about a struggle for peace in a life filled with pain.
Fri at 7:32pm
Brent A. Tozzer
Brent A. Tozzer
I can't click "like" here. Is there a "love" button?
God bless Vic.
Sat at 5:19am
Cin
Cin
also he had a BIG big voice!
Sat at 6:54am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Merry Christmas y'all!

Fri at 5:57am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

Christmas Recordings From WPAQ « Field Trip South
www.lib.unc.edu
The Holiday Season is upon us again. The SFC’s Ralph Epperson Collection holds several recordings from WPAQ Radio that are related to, or were recorded on, Christmas Day.
December 23 at 7:22pm
Donna
Donna
Merry Christmas all you players.
December 23 at 9:02pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

The Year In Blues, From KPLU : NPR
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This year, the 10 best blues albums feature many younger artists who play original music; their work is rooted in the blues but headed somewhere else. Some purists may be put off, but this is a fascinating moment, in which the music is evolving right in front of us. ...
December 22 at 1:50pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Xmas with Tommy Jarrell, family and friends, circa 1983.

Xmas 83 at Dena’s « Field Trip South
www.lib.unc.edu
Students, scholars, and fans of folklore often can’t help but romanticize the experiences of early field collectors, discovering lost tunes and musicians unknown outside their local communities. The music ...
December 21 at 10:21am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Just curious: where do you get your biscuits?

United Tastes - So, Are Your Southern Biscuits Homemade? - Series - NYTimes.com
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Freezer-case biscuits and rolls have been openly and often passionately adopted by many Southerners, contrary to what traditionalists might want outlanders to believe.
December 19 at 4:57am
Mimi Wright
Mimi Wright
I've been baking my own biscuits for over 60 years, I love baking. I also make much of our other bread. But I do buy tortillas, though I had to make those when we lived in MA. I lived for several years growing up in the South, but my parents were mid-western. Now live in Southern CA.
December 19 at 11:15am
Steve Knoblock
Steve Knoblock
I loved baking biscuits but have to admit in recent years I've been lazy and used the frozen. It is part of the Hispanic culture here to make your own soft tortillas to judge by the amount of masa harina sold in the supermarket.
December 19 at 3:58pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

Photo Of The Week: John Lee Hooker « Field Trip South
www.lib.unc.edu
December 18 at 6:28am
Tj Worthington
Tj Worthington
good pic of John Lee.
December 18 at 8:49am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

The Stanley Brothers Live At Ash Grove, 1962 « Field Trip South
www.lib.unc.edu
Armadillo World Headquarters, CBGB’s, The Bluebird Café, Tipitina’s, Whisky A Go-Go, the Village Gate, all names of landmark live music venues. These spaces are inseparable from the music scenes fermented ...
December 15 at 1:18pm
Clair DeLune
Clair DeLune
adores the Stanley Brothers' music.
December 16 at 2:21pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

The Bosses’ Songbook « Field Trip South
www.lib.unc.edu
The Bosses’ Songbook: Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent is “a collection of modern political songs of satire”, edited by Dave Van Ronk and Richard Ellington, self-published by Ellington in New York in 1959 and dedicated “to our constant companion, J. ...
December 14 at 10:33am
Mark
Mark
Dick Ellington gave me a copy of this years ago. A wonderful piece of work! On the CD THE MAYOR OF MACDOUGAL STREET you can hear Van Ronk doing the parody of COLUMBUS STOCKADE BLUES entitled WAY DOWN IN LUBYANKA PRISON(done bluegrass style with Barry Kornfeld on banjo.
December 14 at 10:58am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Essential listening

www.timelife.com
www.timelife.com
December 13 at 7:50pm
Katie
Katie
For me.
December 13 at 9:22pm
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Recommended listening:

Limited Live Show CDs
lucindawilliams.gtmusic360.com
December 13 at 9:54am
Chris Colomb
Chris Colomb
Nice one Lucinda is great!
December 13 at 11:15am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection Recommended reading: The best of the JEMFQ

Exploring Roots Music (Scarecrow Press, Inc.)
www.scarecrowpress.com
We are an academic reference and professional books publisher whose imprints include ScarecrowEducation (formerly Technomic Books), Fallen Leaf, and VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), best known for our ...
December 13 at 9:50am
Southern Folklife Collection

Southern Folklife Collection

Tracking Jewish History Through Vinyl Albums : NPR
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In a new book, authors Roger Bennett and Josh Kun detail American Jewish history through vinyl albums. They are trying to answer questions such as, "Who are we?" and "What are we inheriting?" in what Bennett calls the "beginning of a journey."
December 12 at 6:26am