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The Missouri Folklore Society Journal The Missouri Folklore Society Newsletter
Calendar of Upcoming Missouri folklore and folklife
events Editor's choice: sites especially worthy of a Missouri folklorist's attention Missouri Folklore Studies: an online archive of occasional papers, essays and documentation Resources for educators and students |
The Missouri Folklore SocietyThe Missouri Folklore
Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the collection,
preservation and study of folklore in the widest sense, including customs,
institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, musical arts,
and folk arts and crafts of all ethnic groups throughout the State of
Missouri."
snailmail:
Join us for the 2017 meeting in Sikeston. Our hosts will be John and Carol Fisher, Ken and Janelle
Burch. Bootheel Bounty:From Swampland to Farmland:November 2-4, 2017 Click here for the Call for Participation
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Of special interest
Howard
Marshall's new book (with CD) has arrived and there was a book-signing
at Downtown Book & Toy on High Street in Jeff City in June.
This is
the project that picks up where the 2012 book & CD, "Play Me Something Quick
and Devilish," left off. So, the time span for "Fiddler's Dream" is
from the 1920s to the early 1960s, and it includes chapters on early
fiddlers contests, swing, early bluegrass, and more.
The
book is 450 pages, and has 119 photographs and 24 fiddle tune
transcriptions. Published by the University of Missouri Press
(Columbia). The CD was produced by Voyager Records (Seattle, WA).
The CD
that comes with the book includes 30 tunes, ranging from a 1939 radio
broadcast featuring Lonnie Robertson to a 2015 home recording of Cecil
Goforth. Other fiddlers represented on the CD (many more are discussed
in the book) are Howe Teague, Roy Wooliver, Bert Lewis, Billy Moore, Don
Russell, Leroy Canaday, Larry Ellis, Luther Caldwell, Emmett Heath, Zed
Tennis, Bobby Joe Caldwell, Dale Pauley, Jamie Haage, Lyman Enloe, Delbert
Spray, Warren Helton, Roger Williams, John Williams, and Pete McMahan. There
are also tunes from Missouri fiddlers who migrated to the West -- Ishmael
(Ozark Red) Loveall, Earl Willis, Ellis Cowan, Ron Hughey, and Bob Fast.
New, from Cathy and Dave:
As close to an instrumental album
they’re going to get, featuring Cathy on banjo and hammered dulcimer and
Dave on guitar, playing a mix of fiddle tunes learned in Missouri long ago
as well as those more recent gifts acquired at annual trips to Carp Camp at
the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. With old and new friends featured on
fiddles, mandolins, guitars, bass, piano and percussion we arrange 35 tunes
in 17 tracks. Yes, there are four songs, too. Hear some clips and order from
our website
http://bartonpara.com/bp/index.php/music/
Members -- here's a printable .pdf of the society's trifold brochure
Students -- apply for the Dolf and Becky Schroeder prize in folklore!
New or renewing member? Click here for the membership form (.pdf to print and mail)
Links especially for members of MFS
Click here for a listing of ongoing and developing projects and folklore collections to which you can contribute. Support your Missouri Folklore Society: music and opportunities to donate please note: the Missouri Folklore Society will not share its membership list with any individual or organization, nor do we accept paid advertising.
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