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Collection Number: 20295

Collection Title: Augusta Heritage Center Recordings of Lily Mae Ledford, 1983

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Size 2 items
Abstract The recordings on open-reel audio tape are of Appalachian musical artist Lily Mae Ledford in concert at the Augusta Heritage Center, a folklife organization on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia. Ledford (1917-1985), a fiddler and clawhammer banjo player from Kentucky, performed at Augusta in July 1983. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator Augusta Heritage Center.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
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 Augusta Heritage Center Recordings of Lily Mae Ledford #20295, 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 January 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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Lily Mae Ledford (1917-1985) of Powell County, Ky., was a fiddler and clawhammer banjo player, who performed Appalachian music in the 1940s and 1950s with the Coon Creek Girls, an all-female string band. In the 1960s during the folk music revival, Ledford performed solo. She received a National Heritage Fellowship in 1985 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Augusta Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia is a folklife organization committed to preserving and promoting traditional music, arts and crafts, dance, and folklore in West Virginia. The Center holds collections of art, photographs, field recordings, and other materials.

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