Sidney Robertson Cowell recordings: Ditson Festival
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-0810
label: Date/Time and Place of an Event Note
content: Recorded in: United States, New York (N.Y.), 1950.
label: General
content: PART 3; CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-0810 contains the third of four segments of a "concert of American folk music" which is a part of the "sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music" held in McMillan Theatre at Columbia University, in 1950, sponsored by the Alan Ditson Fund of the University. This tape is labelled Part III; parts I, II and IV are on FW-ASCH-7RR-0808, -0809 and -0811. In addition to an unidentified introductory announcer, Sam Eskin and Sidney Robertson Cowell moderate. A typed program including all four segments of the concert, is included in the jewel box and tape box. In addtion to Jean Ritchie (Kentucky mountain singer and mountain dulcimer player), the tape includes: the Old Harp Singers (on Folkways record FW02356), who are from east Tennessee and sing shaped note hymn music from The Harp of Columbia; Mr. Everett Pitt (a traditional northern U.S. singer), who sings two unaccompanied ballads; and Don Baker from Michigan, who plays the hammered dulcimer. Sidney Robertson Cowell provides interesting information about the hammered dulcimer.
name: label: Producer
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Artist
content: Ritchie, Jean
label: Artist
content: Summers, Andrew Rowan
label: Artist
content: Pitt, Everett, 1886-1954
label: Artist
content: Eskin, Sam
label: Artist
content: Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: Appalachian Region, Southern -- Songs and music
label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.)
label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: Kentucky
label: Place
content: Tennessee
label: Place
content: Michigan
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs -- United States
label: Topic
content: Folksong revival
label: Topic
content: Dulcimer music
label: Topic
content: Dulcimer
creator: label: Producer
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Artist
content: Ritchie, Jean
label: Artist
content: Summers, Andrew Rowan
label: Artist
content: Pitt, Everett, 1886-1954
label: Artist
content: Eskin, Sam
label: Artist
content: Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Anglo-American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / Open Reel Tapes
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-0810
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Intro--Northfield--Ocean--Morality (Old Harp Singers)--Rounds of Old Ireland--Over poor Anton O'Rowley (Farmer;s curst wife)(Everett Pitt); In haste to the wedding--Turkey in the straw--Irish washerwoman (don Baker)--I wonder Maria's gone--May carol (Jean Ritchie)