Performances
odd: label: Introduction
content: The 1970 Festival, like its predecessors, provided a wide-ranging sampler of America's music and dance traditions, with performances on the Dairy Area and Central Area stages and evening concerts at the Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument grounds. Emphasizing the important role of family in the maintenance and transmission of folklife, the Festival presented Mother Maybelle Carter of the famous singing family together with her brothers Dewey Addington and Doc Addington, her daughter Helen Carter, sister-in-law Sarah Carter and niece Janette Carter Kelly. A half dozen members of Doc Watson's extended family were either on stage as musicians or in tents demonstrating crafts. Three Sacred Harp groups - one representing African American communities in Alabama, an Anglo American group from Alabama and another from Georgia - also included numerous members for whom Sacred Harp singing had been a family tradition for several generations.

Participation of the Alabama singers was made possible by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities.
label: Presenters
content: Jay Anderson, Joe Dan Boyd, Topper Carew, Mike Cooney, Josh Dunson, Joe Hickerson, Alan Jabbour, Norman Kennedy, Worth Long, Reed Martin, Mack McCormick, Guthrie Meade, Ed Morris, Hoyle Osborn, Ethel Raim, Jerry Ricks, Jim Rooney, Bob Siggins, Dick Spottswood, Happy Traum, Jesse Winch, Don Yoder
label: Participants
content: Participants

Addington and Carter families  -- Addington and Carter familiesDewey Addington, 1898-1993, traditional old-time country singer, TennesseeDoc Addington, 1913-1988, traditional old-time country singer, IndianaMaybelle Carter, 1909-1978, traditional old-time country singer, TennesseeHelen Carter, 1927-1998, traditional old-time country singer, VirginiaSara Carter, 1898-1979, traditional old-time country singer, VirginiaJanette Carter Kelly, 1923-2006, traditional old-time country singer, Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountain Cloggers  -- Blue Ridge Mountain CloggersJames Kesterson, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaArlene Kesterson, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaSherry Keeter, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaLeonard Moody, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaDavid Moody, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaJimmy Rathbun, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaCindy Rumstock, square & clog dancer, North CarolinaMargie Steele, square & clog dancer, North Carolina

Bogan, Martin and the Armstrongs  -- Bogan, Martin and the ArmstrongsTed Bogan, 1913-1990, blues string band, IllinoisCarl Martin, 1906-1979, blues string band, IllinoisHoward Armstrong, 1909-2003, blues string band, MichiganL.C. Armstrong, blues string band, Michigan

Chinese American Youth Club  -- Chinese American Youth ClubBilly Guey, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Dennis Lay, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Way Lay, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Eddie Lee, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Harry Lee, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Herbert Lee, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Wallace Lee, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.William Lee, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Wally Mah, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Benny Moy, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Eddie Moy, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Teddy Moy, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.Jenning Wong, dragon dancer, Washington, D.C.

Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, bluegrass band, Virginia

Elizabeth Cotten, 1895-1987, country songster and guitarist, Washington, D.C.

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, 1905-1974, blues singer and guitarist, Virginia

Sleepy John Estes, 1899-1977, blues singer and guitarist, Tennessee

Alice Foster, 1934-, country singer, Washington, D.C.

Hazel Dickens, 1935-2011, country singer, Washington, D.C.

Georgia Sea Island Singers  -- Georgia Sea Island SingersJerome Davis, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaPeter Davis, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaBessie Jones, 1902-1984, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaJo Angela Jones, 1941-2005, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaRose Jones, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaStella Jones, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaVanessa Jones, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, GeorgiaEmma Louise Ramsey, 1915-, shouts, spirituals, ring plays, jubilees, Georgia

Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys, Tennessee string band  -- Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys, Tennessee string bandCharley Bailey, 1916-2004, mandolin, DelawareDanny Bailey, 1919-2004, guitarist, TennesseeGary Henderson, 1944-, bass playerMary Morgan, autoharpTom Morgan, guitaristDave Norman, banjo playerLeroy Mumma, fiddler, Pennsylvania

John Jackson, 1924-2002, blues singer and guitarist, Virginia

Casey Jones, bagpiper, Scottish war pipes, Washington, D.C.

Lebre and Pimental families  -- Lebre and Pimental familiesAntonio Lebre, 1920-2006, Portuguese fado musician, MassachusettsAlice Lebre, Portuguese fado musician, MassachusettsNatalia Lebre, Portuguese fado musician, MassachusettsGilberto Pimental, Portuguese fado musician, MassachusettsJose Pimental, Portuguese fado musician, Massachusetts

Mance Lipscomb, 1895-1976, blues singer and guitarist, Texas

Antonio Mosquera and group, Galician Spanish piper, drummers and dancers, New York

Ward, Ward, and Brewer  -- Ward, Ward, and BrewerKahle Brewer, 1904-1989, old time string band, VirginiaFields Ward, 1911-1987, old time string band, VirginiaWade Ward, 1892-1971, old time string band, Virginia

New Lost City Ramblers  -- New Lost City RamblersJohn Cohen, 1932-, old-time string band, New YorkTracy Schwarz, 1938-, old-time string band, PennsylvaniaMike Seeger, 1933-2009, old-time string band, Maryland

Old Time Fiddler's Club of Rhode Island, fiddle band, Rhode Island

Pennywhistlers  -- PennywhistlersFrancine Brown, East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaShelley Cook, East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaJoyce Gluck East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaAlice Kogan, East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaDeborah Lesser, East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaEthel Raim, East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaDina Silberman, East European folk songs, PennsylvaniaArtie Rose, accompanist, East European folk songs, Pennsylvania

James "Yank" Rachell, 1910-1997, blues, mandolin player, Indiana

Jerry Ricks, 1940-2007, blues and country singer and guitarist, Pennsylvania

Sacred Harp group  -- Sacred Harp groupDewey Williams, 1898-1995, leader, Sacred Harp group, AlabamaW. Columbus, singer, AlabamaCleona Derry, singer, AlabamaBernice Williams Harvey, 1912-1998, singer, AlabamaNancy Hogan, singer, AlabamaDovie Jackson, singer, AlabamaJapheth Jackson, singer, AlabamaPauline Jackson, singer, AlabamaRobby Reynolds, singer, Alabama

Sacred Harp group  -- Sacred Harp groupHugh McGraw, leader, Sacred Harp singer, GeorgiaBuell Cobb, 1944-, Sacred Harp singer, GeorgiaOra Lea Fanning, Sacred Harp singer, GeorgiaRaymond Hemrich, Sacred Harp singer, GeorgiaCharlene Wallace, Sacred Harp singer, Georgia

Sacred Harp group  -- Sacred Harp groupRuth Denson Edwards, 1893-1978, leader, Sacred Harp singer, AlabamaElmer Kitchens, 1917-1995, Sacred Harp singer, AlabamaNora Parker, Sacred Harp singer, AlabamaWalter Parker, Sacred Harp singer, AlabamaPernie Pelfry, 1916-2013, Sacred Harp singer, Alabama

Tommy Standeven, Irish  -- uilleann --  bagpipe player, New Jersey

Watson family  -- Watson familyGaither Carlton, 1901-1972, fiddler, North CarolinaArley Watson, guitarist, and fiddler, North CarolinaOra Watson, 1911-2008, guitarist and fiddler, North CarolinaDoc (Arthel) Watson, 1923-2012, singer, guitarist, banjo player, North CarolinaMerle Watson, 1949-1985, guitarist, North CarolinaNancy Watson, singer, North CarolinaRosa Lee Watson, 1931-2012, singer and guitarist, North Carolina

Booker White, 1906-1977, blues singer and guitarist, Tennessee

Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, 1933-1986, freedom songs, New York
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1970 Festival of American Folklife
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.1970, Series 4
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content: Archival materials