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co 0 N 0 ¢ > ,:;(, .(:.:J.s c: CD ~ ~i :~ ::s 0 ..J -0 > +J ·;..;. CD ·c>: ::::> e a: N g Belknap Folk Festival '72 CHRIS POTTERS What do a seventy-two year old great-grandfather from West Virginia, a fifteen year old South End high school girl, U of L's director of student activities, and Louisville's mayor have in common? They will all be participating in the 2nd Annual Belknap Folk and Crafts Festival here on campus September 1 3-16. In addition there will be nearly seventy other craftsmen and musicians taking part in this four-day series of concerts, workshops, ex hi bits, and demonstrations. The festival participants are coming to the University from a 11 over the country. The majority will be from Kentucky, but all the surrounding states will be represented, as well as Michigan, Wisconsin, Massa ch usett s, New York, Arkansas, and other states. Coming from Missouri will be a woman who is keeping alive the art of making dolls from a variety of materials. Coming from W est V i r g inia is a contingent of fiddlers who are well-remembered from last year's festival. Lee Triplett, Ira Mullins, and their back-up guitar man, Dana Perkins, came on the bus from Charleston last year, after hitch-hiking from their home in Clay County. They rode 14 hours on the bus - including a two-hour bre kdown, during which they entertained the other passengers by fiddling. At the festival they played for the sheer joy of it in their rooms at Miller, in the lobby of the UC, and on the festival stage. They had never been to a city as big as Louisville before. Lee is over seventy; Ira is nearly as old. From Arkansas we will have Almeda Riddle, who is "Granny" to several generations. She is a fine singer in the old traditional style - she sings unaccompanied ballads, childre:n's songs, old-time parlor songs, and hymns. She is a special favorite of all who hear her, and you'll know her by her white poke bonnet - just say "Hi, Granny!" and you'll be greeted with a wonderful smile and a pat on the arm. She has severall recordings out, which will be on sale in the record booth. She will be at Friday's ballad workshop. On1e of the highlights of any festivaJ is the singing and playing of J.P. and Annadeene Fraley. J.P. pllays the fiddle ; Annadeene plays guitar with him. They are well-known throughout the Ashland area as square-dance musiciLans and balladeers (along with their daughter Danielle) and have performed at all the regional festivals for several years. They also have their own Fraley Family Festival every year at Carter Cave State Park, which is a gathering of the clan and of friends from near and far for a weekend of music and reunion. This year J.P. and Annadeene were invited to play at th'e National Folk Festival, and both made quite an impression on the audiences. J.P. was written up in the New York Times: and was descrived at the Fox Hollow Festival later in the month as "the sweetest fiddler I ever heard play'' by Gilles Lozier, a Canadian fiddler who will a.lso be with us during the week. AUI the daytime activities of the Elelknap Festival will take place between the library and the U.C. Building. There will be a sta~:e set up for a free concert every day at noon, and workshops on guitar, banjo, dulcimer, fiddle, and other mountain instruments through the afternoons. In addition there will be craft demonstrations throughout the week, beginning with a macrame workshop on Wednesday afternoon. (A complete schedule of events is on What's Happening page.) Most Louisvillians are familiar with the work Lou Tate has done at the Little Loomhouse on Kenwood Hill to further the art of spinning and weaving, and this year she has moved her annual fall open house to the University campus in conjunction with the Belknap Festival. Lou and her friends will be on hand every day with demonstrations of spinning, weaving, tie-dye, vegetable dyeing, and related crafts. There will also be an opportunity for anyone who wishes to try his hand at weaving on her looms. There wiU be workshops on weaving also. A special attraction on Thursday afternoon will be the Children's Concert, which, like all the other daytime events, is free. Most of the performers (singers, musicians, storytellers. and even a theatrical troupe acting out old folk tales) wiU be on hand to entertain as many children as can be squeezed onto the lawn. And all the children in LouisvilJe have been invited to attend - children of all ages. Daily through the week the Rauch Planetarium on 2nd Street is showing a special attraction designed especially for the festival, "Folklore and the Stars," whiCh will incorporate many of the old superstitions and tales surrounding the movement of the sky. The regular admission fee for the Planetarium will apply. The biggest attraction of the festival will · again this year be the evening concerts. Approximately forty musicians will be participating - music ranging from blues to bluegrass, from infectious fiddle music and foot-tapping frailing banjo to the sweet simple tones of the mountain dulcimer and the a cape]]a singing of Granny Riddle. The show starts each night at seven and lasts till it's over - usually by midnight. A ticket for the four nights cost only $3.00 - just about the best bargain in town. If you can only make it one or two nights, it'll cost you $1.00at the door . There will be music on the stage of every kind. People who didn't know each other on the 13th will play on stage together on the 15th - for that's the wondrous thing about folk festivals. Everybody loves the music, and the feeling spreads to the audience and to all the performers: the feeling that whether you're fifteen or seventy-two, from the city or from the country, when the fiddles and the banjos and the autoharps come out of the cases, and somebody calls for "Old Joe Clark" or "Wildwood Flower" or "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," then the music makes friends faster than anybody's handshake. Lee Triplett won't care how long your hair is when he shows you all the ribbons he's won for fiddling; Granny Riddle won't care if the women show up in work shirts and jeans or in miniskirts as long as they want to share in her music. The music is the reason for the festival. By the time Saturday night rolls around all of us who have come every night will be exhausted, but euphoric, and terribly sorry to see all our friends go home to Missouri, and West Virginia, and Michigan, and Arkansas. And we will be waiting for Mxt year to come around, just like they've been waiting to be back with us all this year.
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Title | The Louisville Cardinal, September 7, 1972. |
Volume | XLIV |
Issue | 2 |
Description | The University of Louisville’s undergraduate newspaper. The title of this publication has varied over the years, but with the exception of the period 1928-1930, when it was known as the U. of L. News, the title has always been a variation of The Cardinal. |
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Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals University of Louisville--Students--Periodicals |
Date Original | 1972-09-07 |
Object Type | Newspapers |
Source | Scanned from microfilm in the Louisville Cardinal newspapers collection. Item Number ULUA Cardinal 19720907 |
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Collection | Louisville Cardinal Newspapers Collection |
Collection Website | https://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/cardinal |
Digital Publisher | University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections |
Date Digital | 2019-01-29 |
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Full Text | co 0 N 0 ¢ > ,:;(, .(:.:J.s c: CD ~ ~i :~ ::s 0 ..J -0 > +J ·;..;. CD ·c>: ::::> e a: N g Belknap Folk Festival '72 CHRIS POTTERS What do a seventy-two year old great-grandfather from West Virginia, a fifteen year old South End high school girl, U of L's director of student activities, and Louisville's mayor have in common? They will all be participating in the 2nd Annual Belknap Folk and Crafts Festival here on campus September 1 3-16. In addition there will be nearly seventy other craftsmen and musicians taking part in this four-day series of concerts, workshops, ex hi bits, and demonstrations. The festival participants are coming to the University from a 11 over the country. The majority will be from Kentucky, but all the surrounding states will be represented, as well as Michigan, Wisconsin, Massa ch usett s, New York, Arkansas, and other states. Coming from Missouri will be a woman who is keeping alive the art of making dolls from a variety of materials. Coming from W est V i r g inia is a contingent of fiddlers who are well-remembered from last year's festival. Lee Triplett, Ira Mullins, and their back-up guitar man, Dana Perkins, came on the bus from Charleston last year, after hitch-hiking from their home in Clay County. They rode 14 hours on the bus - including a two-hour bre kdown, during which they entertained the other passengers by fiddling. At the festival they played for the sheer joy of it in their rooms at Miller, in the lobby of the UC, and on the festival stage. They had never been to a city as big as Louisville before. Lee is over seventy; Ira is nearly as old. From Arkansas we will have Almeda Riddle, who is "Granny" to several generations. She is a fine singer in the old traditional style - she sings unaccompanied ballads, childre:n's songs, old-time parlor songs, and hymns. She is a special favorite of all who hear her, and you'll know her by her white poke bonnet - just say "Hi, Granny!" and you'll be greeted with a wonderful smile and a pat on the arm. She has severall recordings out, which will be on sale in the record booth. She will be at Friday's ballad workshop. On1e of the highlights of any festivaJ is the singing and playing of J.P. and Annadeene Fraley. J.P. pllays the fiddle ; Annadeene plays guitar with him. They are well-known throughout the Ashland area as square-dance musiciLans and balladeers (along with their daughter Danielle) and have performed at all the regional festivals for several years. They also have their own Fraley Family Festival every year at Carter Cave State Park, which is a gathering of the clan and of friends from near and far for a weekend of music and reunion. This year J.P. and Annadeene were invited to play at th'e National Folk Festival, and both made quite an impression on the audiences. J.P. was written up in the New York Times: and was descrived at the Fox Hollow Festival later in the month as "the sweetest fiddler I ever heard play'' by Gilles Lozier, a Canadian fiddler who will a.lso be with us during the week. AUI the daytime activities of the Elelknap Festival will take place between the library and the U.C. Building. There will be a sta~:e set up for a free concert every day at noon, and workshops on guitar, banjo, dulcimer, fiddle, and other mountain instruments through the afternoons. In addition there will be craft demonstrations throughout the week, beginning with a macrame workshop on Wednesday afternoon. (A complete schedule of events is on What's Happening page.) Most Louisvillians are familiar with the work Lou Tate has done at the Little Loomhouse on Kenwood Hill to further the art of spinning and weaving, and this year she has moved her annual fall open house to the University campus in conjunction with the Belknap Festival. Lou and her friends will be on hand every day with demonstrations of spinning, weaving, tie-dye, vegetable dyeing, and related crafts. There will also be an opportunity for anyone who wishes to try his hand at weaving on her looms. There wiU be workshops on weaving also. A special attraction on Thursday afternoon will be the Children's Concert, which, like all the other daytime events, is free. Most of the performers (singers, musicians, storytellers. and even a theatrical troupe acting out old folk tales) wiU be on hand to entertain as many children as can be squeezed onto the lawn. And all the children in LouisvilJe have been invited to attend - children of all ages. Daily through the week the Rauch Planetarium on 2nd Street is showing a special attraction designed especially for the festival, "Folklore and the Stars," whiCh will incorporate many of the old superstitions and tales surrounding the movement of the sky. The regular admission fee for the Planetarium will apply. The biggest attraction of the festival will · again this year be the evening concerts. Approximately forty musicians will be participating - music ranging from blues to bluegrass, from infectious fiddle music and foot-tapping frailing banjo to the sweet simple tones of the mountain dulcimer and the a cape]]a singing of Granny Riddle. The show starts each night at seven and lasts till it's over - usually by midnight. A ticket for the four nights cost only $3.00 - just about the best bargain in town. If you can only make it one or two nights, it'll cost you $1.00at the door . There will be music on the stage of every kind. People who didn't know each other on the 13th will play on stage together on the 15th - for that's the wondrous thing about folk festivals. Everybody loves the music, and the feeling spreads to the audience and to all the performers: the feeling that whether you're fifteen or seventy-two, from the city or from the country, when the fiddles and the banjos and the autoharps come out of the cases, and somebody calls for "Old Joe Clark" or "Wildwood Flower" or "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," then the music makes friends faster than anybody's handshake. Lee Triplett won't care how long your hair is when he shows you all the ribbons he's won for fiddling; Granny Riddle won't care if the women show up in work shirts and jeans or in miniskirts as long as they want to share in her music. The music is the reason for the festival. By the time Saturday night rolls around all of us who have come every night will be exhausted, but euphoric, and terribly sorry to see all our friends go home to Missouri, and West Virginia, and Michigan, and Arkansas. And we will be waiting for Mxt year to come around, just like they've been waiting to be back with us all this year. |
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