Women; Men; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Violins; Guitars; Mouth organs; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas wearing her "Narrator" costume (a long black dress with white collar and sleeves), is joined by various musicians, including fiddler J.P. Fraley and his wife Annadeene (who also works as Thomas' assistant) onstage at the...
Women; Men; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and sleeves, is joined by various musicians, including some in Elizabethan costume, children doing play-party games, and an audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival,...
Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Guitars; Zithers; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Various musicians, including some in Elizabethan costume; a hammered dulcimer player; a guitar player; a group of children; and an audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, now held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill,...
Women; Men; Children; Spectators; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Primarily photographs of the audience at the thirty-eighth annual American Folk Song Festival, held at Carter Caves State Park in Olive Hill, Kentucky with a replica of Jean Thomas' "Traipsin' Woman Cabin" serving as the stage, this...
Women; Men; Children; Costumes--United States; Costumes--Great Britain; Music festivals; Folk festivals; Musicians; Log cabins; Guitars; Zithers; Violins; Banjos; Mouth organs; Stringed instruments; Contact sheets; American Folk Song Festival
Various musicians, including children playing hammered dulcimer; men playing guitar and harmonica; a young woman playing guitar; and a string band featuring J.P. Fraley on fiddle join Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress with white collar and...
Lillian Fletcher is playing a folk, or Celtic, harp while her sister Elizabeth Fletcher sits beside her. Both wear gowns and are in front of a plain white backdrop. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on lower right corner of mount....
Lillian Fletcher is playing a folk, or Celtic, harp while her sister Elizabeth Fletcher sits at her feet. Both wear gowns and are in front of a mural or painted backdrop. Title supplied by cataloger.
Elizabeth and Lillian Fletcher pose as if performing a song accompanied by a harp. Lillian, seated, is playing a folk, or Celtic, harp while Elizabeth stands. Both wear gowns and are in front of a plain white backdrop. Title supplied by cataloger.
Jean Thomas, wearing her 'Narrator' costume (a long black dress with white collar and sleeves), is joined by various musicians, people in Elizabethan costume, and others for the re-dedication of her "Wee House in the Wood" as the...
Jean Thomas, wearing her "Narrator" costume (a long black dress with white collar and sleeves), is joined by various musicians, people in Elizabethan costume, priests, nuns, and assorted dignitaries for the re-dedication of her "Wee...
Sam "Danger" Davidson plays the fiddle while others listen on the porch of Henry Davidson's cabin. Handwritten on bottom border: 432. See ULPA 1982.01.457.p for a different view of the same gathering. Title supplied by cataloger.
Violins; Stringed instruments; Musicians; Men; Children
Group of men and children gathered indoors, apparently to listen to Alfred Burns play the fiddle. Most sit facing the camera on wooden chairs in a wall-papered room. From left to right: Dixie Burns, an unidentified girl, Myrtle Burns, an...
Violins; Stringed instruments; Musicians; Country life; Log cabins
Sitting outside a log cabin, Sam "Danger" Davidson plays the fiddle while Ann Couch provides tempo with fiddlesticks. This is also known as "beatin' with straws." Handwritten on bottom border: 414. Title supplied by cataloger.
A man identified in other Kate Matthews photographs as Ted plays a violin as he stands facing the camera next to the pipe organ in Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church in Oldham County, Kentucky. There is a music stand in front of him and a music book...
A man identified in other Kate Matthews photographs as Ted plays a violin as he stands facing the camera next to the pipe organ in Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church in Oldham County, Kentucky. There is a music stand in front of him and a music book...
Man identified as Ted in other Kate Matthews photographs sits in profile holding a violin. The photographer's signature is on the album page. Title supplied by cataloger.