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No usage restrictions.

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 Brian Burch Collection #20469, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Brian Burch of San Antonio, Tex., in January 2012 (Acc. 101532).

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.

Processed by: Anne Wells, April 2018

Encoded by: Anne Wells, April 2018

Archival processing of the Brian Burch Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Amateur films.
• Bluegrass music.
• Burch, Brian (Amateur filmmaker)
• Fiddler's Grove (Union Grove, N.C.)
• Fiddlers--North Carolina.
• Fiddling--Competitions--North Carolina--Union Grove.
• Folk festivals--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Music festivals--North Carolina.
• Old Time Fiddlers' Convention (Union Grove, N.C.)
• Ole Time Fiddler's & Bluegrass Festival (Union Grove, N.C.)

• Fiddler's Grove Collection (#20016)

Brian Burch is a roots music fan from Texas, who documented his time at the 1973 Fiddler's Grove Festival on Super 8mm motion picture film. Fiddler's Grove is an old-time-music and family-oriented campground that was developed on land purchased in Union Grove, N.C., by dairy farmer and fiddler, Harper Van Hoy and his wife, Wanona, in 1970. From the beginning, Fiddler's Grove was envisioned as the site for an annual fiddling competition. Central entertainment events at Fiddler's Grove have been the Ole Time Fiddler's & Bluegrass Festival, a spring fiddling competition held annually since 1970, and the Square-Up, a fall clogging dance competition held until 1982.

The Brian Burch Collection consists of silent Super 8mm motion picture films of the 1973 Ole Time Fiddler’s & Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C. Shot by roots music fan, Brian Burch, the Super 8mm home movie footage primarily depicts festival attendees, leisure activities, and performances by old-time and bluegrass musicians. The collection also includes an edited digital version of the films made by Brian and Gillen Burch.

• Films (F-20469/1-9)
• Digital Item (DF-20469/1) available in the Carolina Digital Repository.