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[Identification of item], in the Fiddler Magazine Recordings #70120, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Fiddler Magazine editor Mary Larsen in March 2022 (Acc. 20220324.1).

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• Acuff, Charlie, 1919-2013.
• Blizard, Ralph, 1918-2004.
• Fiddle tunes.
• Fiddler Magazine.
• Folk music--Appalachian Region, Southern.
• Folk music--Nova Scotia--Cape Breton Island.
• Gellert, Dan.
• Greene, Bruce, 1951-
• Hartford, John.
• Holland, Jerry, 1955-2009.
• Leftwich, Brad.
• MacMaster, Buddy.
• Sutphin, Kirk.
• Violin music.
• Wilson, Red.

From www.fiddle.com:

Founded in 1994, Fiddler Magazine is a resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and listeners. Each quarterly issue (approx. 60 pages each) features a variety of different styles of fiddling, as well as articles and columns. Regular columns include: Bluegrass Fiddling, "The Practicing Fiddler," Fiddle Tune History, On Improvisation, Irish Fiddling, Violin Maker's Corner, Tunesmiths, Notes on Learning, reviews of CDs, books, and DVDs. Each issue also includes transcriptions of several tunes.

Contains original unedited footage and edited production masters for Fiddler Magazine’s series on Appalachian and Cape Breton fiddle traditions. The Appalachian tapes include footage of fiddlers Ralph Blizard, Bruce Greene, Brad Leftwich, Charlie Acuff, John Hartford, Dan Gellert, Red Wilson, and Kirk Sutphin, along with their accompanists. The Cape Breton tapes include fiddlers Buddy MacMaster, Jerry Holland, and several others. The footage captures many of the foremost musicians playing in these traditions in the mid-1990s. The musicians documented in the footage are primarily white men from small rural communities in Appalachia and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

• Commercial recordings received with the collection cataloged separately in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill online catalog.