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Collection Number: 20294

Collection Title: Cari Norris Collection of Coon Creek Girls and Lily May Ledford Recordings, 1939-1975 and undated

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Size 12 items
Abstract The recordings on open-reel audio tape contain performances by the all-female string band the Coon Creek Girls led by claw hammer banjo player and fiddler Lily May Ledford of Powell County, Ky., solo performances by Ledford, and interviews with Ledford and other musicians. One performance by the Coon Creek Girls was originally recorded at the White House in Washington, D.C., in 1939. Also included are brief notes about each tape made by Ledford's granddaughter, Cari Norris of Hindman, Ky., who donated the tapes. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator Ledford, Lily May, 1917-1985.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Cari Norris Collection of Coon Creek Girls and Lily May Ledford Recordings #20294, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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This summary description was created in February 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

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Cari Norris of Hindman, Ky., is the granddaughter of musical artist Lily May Ledford (1917-1985) of Kentucky. Ledford, a clawhammer banjo player and fiddler, was the leader of the string band the Coon Creek Girls, a popular act on regional radio in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, Ledford had a solo career performing at festivals as a part of the folk music revival in the second half of the twentieth century. Shortly before her death in 1985, she was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

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