University of California-Berkeley Folk Festival: Workshop 4, 6/29/62

Object Details

Local Numbers: FW-ASCH-7RR-4053
General: CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-4053 is a concert/workshop (workshop no. 4), featuring Appalachian folksinger and dulcimer player, Jean Ritchie, recorded 6/29,1962. She doesn't perform, but discusses four folksingers she recorded, and plays the recordings she made of them. Two of the persons whose taped performances she plays are fiddler Clarence Farrell, of Alpine, TN and Ivy Scott, of the North Carolina Outer Banks. When Jean Ritchie was in Scotland, she recorded two singers whose songs she plays, namely, Elizabeth White and Ella Ward, both of Scotland. She also discusses Jeannie Robertson, Scottish folksinger whom she claims she (Jean) was the first to record.

Performer: Ritchie, Jean
Artist: Robertson, Jeannie, 1908-1975
Collection Creator: Asch, Moses; Distler, Marian, 1919-1964; Folkways Records

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Collection Citation: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

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Contents: Intro--Bright morning stars a-shining--Charleston No. 1--Comments/ Lass of Loch Royal--Comments--When the booze yacht ran ashore--Comments-; Betty White--Here's to old Betty--Waulking song; Jeannie Robertson--Four Marys

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