Unbroken Scottish, Irish, and English Ballad Traditions
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
setName: label: See more items in
content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
label: See more items in
content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: On The Move / 4.3: Audio
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 July 01
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0701_Circus_Arts_Arts_Jubilee_Stage_0005
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Listening copies available
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Marjorie Hunt (presenter); Sheila Kay Adams; Melanie Rice Penland; Donna RaY Norton ;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.