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[Identification of item], in the Bill Nowlin Photographs #20554, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Bill Nowlin August 2018 (Acc.103377) and December 2018 (Acc.103505).

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• Folk festivals--United States--Photographs.
• Folk music--United States--Photographs.
• Folk singers--United States--Photographs.
• McMichen, Clayton, 1900-1970.
• National Hollerin' Contest (Spivey's Corner, N.C.)
• Nowlin, Bill, 1945-
• Old Time Fiddlers Convention (Union Grove, N.C.)
• Puckett, Riley, 1894-1946.
• Rounder Records (Firm)--Photographs.
• Sound recording industry--Photographs.

• Ken Irwin Collection (#20551)

Bill Nowlin is one of three founders of Rounder Records, of Cambridge, Mass., and a researcher on traditional music. He is also the author of books on baseball and a professor of political science at University of Massachusetts at Lowell, in Lowell, Mass.

The Bill Nowlin Photographs consists chiefly of images taken by the white co-founder of Rounder Records, Bill Nowlin, depicting folk singers and musicians at folk festivals, fiddling contests, and other performances, circa 1967-1975. Events depicted in the collection include, Northeast Oldtime Fiddlers Contest, Spivey's Corner National Hollering Contest, Smithsonian Folk Festival, UC Folk Festival, Union Grove Oldtime Fiddlers Event, as well as music events in Galax, Va. Also included are images of the Rounder Records offices in Cambridge, Mass., as well as some earlier photographic prints of musicians collected by Nowlin that depict musicians Clayton McMichen and Riley Puckett.