#Alan lomax recordings archive
#Alan lomax recordings series

The scroll is installed in a box, and a storyteller uses it by slowly cranking the scroll as they relate a narrative, so that one part of the scroll (or one scene from the story) is visible in the frame at a time.вЂќ Musician Anna Roberts-Gevalt, who sings traditional music and creates crankies, will lead the workshop.ДЄnd if the allure of crankies (can you tell IвЂ™m really excited about them?) and the return of musical riches isnвЂ™t enough, hereвЂ™s a sample Salsburg shared with The Hillville of one of the recordings from LomaxвЂ™s journey in the mountains to entice you from the Pine Mountain GirlsвЂ™ Octet performing вЂњWondrous LoveвЂќ:ДЄll events take place at the Clifton Center (2117 Payne Street, Louisville) and entry fee is pay-what-you-can.Д§:00 Pre-concert Talk: Lomax Archive Curator Nathan Salsburg will give remarks on LomaxвЂ™s East Kentucky recordingsДЁ:00 Concert with John Harrod & Kentucky Wild Horse There will also be a shape-note singing session with the Ohio Valley Shape Note Singers and musician-led workshops in banjo, fiddle and crankies.ДЄccording to this story from WUNC, crankies are вЂњlong swaths of decorated fabric or paper rolled up on both ends like a scroll. The weekendвЂ™s events honor the music of eastern Kentucky through cross-genre events including film screenings, a square dance, a curatorвЂ™s talk on LomaxвЂ™s recordings, as well as a Friday night performance of traditional Appalachian music.

Through these events, the Alan Lomax Archive, Salsburg continues, вЂњin collaboration with partners across the state, and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress-will be making LomaxвЂ™s 1930s East Kentucky recordings available to institutions and organizations large and small, and to the communities where they originated.вЂќ According to Salsburg, the Lomax Archives plans for them all to be available online by the end of 2015. вЂњThe Louisville event is the kick-off what will be a year-plus of statewide repatriation events,вЂќ Salsburg says. The event is organized by Nathan Salsburg, a curator with the Alan Lomax Archive who lives in Louisville and is managing the efforts to repatriate the recordings throughout Kentucky. The LomaxвЂ™s recordings that are coming home to roost this weekend are part of LomaxвЂ™s 1937 two-month documentation stint in which he garnered 32 hours of recordings from вЂњballad singers and songsters Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal hymns childrenвЂ™s game songs and lullabies and dozens of fiddlers, guitarists, harp-blowers, and banjo players вЂ¦ farmers, coal miners, bus drivers, washerwomen, and schoolteachers,вЂќ as described in event materials. The eventвЂ™s title references a song collected and recorded by Lomax from the early 20th century, in Salyersville in Magoffin County in southeastern Kentucky.

#Alan lomax recordings series

The two-day festival, called вЂњ IвЂ™ve Rambled This Country Both Early & Late: A Celebration of Kentucky Mountain Music,вЂќ is the kick-off to a series of repatriation events, reintroducing the digitized recordings from folklorist Alan LomaxвЂ™s recording sessions in the вЂ™30s to various cultural institutions and libraries where they can be accessed by researchers, musicians and fans of mountain music. A big olвЂ™ party celebrating music from Eastern Kentucky is set to happen this Friday and Saturday in the heart of LouisvileвЂ™s urban, Clifton neighborhood.