Unbroken Scottish, Irish, and English Ballad Traditions
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: On The Move / 4.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 June 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0629_OTM_Story_Circle_0005
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Listening copies available
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content: Jeff Place (presenter); Sheila Kay Adams; Donna Rae Norton; Melanie Rice Perland; ;NEA National Heritage Fellow Sheila Kay Adams is a seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and musician born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina. This region is renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing that dates back to the early Scots-Irish and English settlers of the mid-seventeenth century. At the Festival, Adams performs with two of the mentees who have been learning songs from her.