Performances
odd: label: Introduction
content: Like previous Festivals, the 1969 Festival offered a diverse program of music and dance representing Anglo Americans and African Americans, as well as ethnic traditions from Cuban, Greek, Turkish, Cajun and Creole, and French American communities. A highlight of the 1969 Festival was a reunion of Bill and Charlie Monroe, joined by brother Birch and sister Bertha. Other old-time and bluegrass performers included Dock Boggs, Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Driftwood, Buell Kazee, Tex Logan, Wiley and Zeke Morris, Don Stover, and Merle Travis. African American music ranged from the Moving Star Hall Singers to one-man band Jesse Fuller, from a fife and drum group to the Jelly Roll Memorial Band.
label: Participants
content: Ardoin Family & Canray Fontenot, 1922-1995, Louisiana-French Black music (la la), Louisiana

Balfa Freres, Cajun band, Louisiana

Horton Barker, 1889-1973, ballad singer, Virginia

Dock Boggs, 1898-1971, singer, banjo player, Virginia

Rev. William Carroll, 1912-1989, pastor, First Holiness Church, Virginia

Maybelle Carter, 1909-1978, singer, guitar player, Tennessee, Virginia

Elizabeth Cotten, 1895-1987, singer, guitar player, Washington, D.C., North Carolina

Kyle Creed, 1912-1982, Roscoe Russell, 1917-1993, Otis Burris, 1917-1989, string band, Virginia

Jimmie Driftwood, 1907-1998, string band, Arkansas

First Church of God and Christ Gospel Choir, Georgia

First Maryland Regiment Fife & Drum Band, Maryland

Jesse Fuller, 1896-1976, one-man band, California, Georgia

Greek Singers & Dancers, New York, Connecticut

Sarah Ogan Gunning, 1910-1983, ballad singer, Michigan, Kentucky

John Jackson, 1924-2002, Piedmont blues singer, Virginia

Jelly Roll Memorial Band with Danny Barker, 1909-1994, old time jazz, Louisiana

Buell Kazee, 1900-1976, banjo player, ballad singer, Kentucky

Benjamin "Tex" Logan, 1927-2015, fiddler, New Jersey, Texas

J. E. Mainer, 1898-1971, string band member, North Carolina

Wade Mainer, 1907-2011, string band member, North Carolina 

Steve Ledford, 1906-1980, string band member, North Carolina

Bertha Monroe, 1908-1997, singer, Kentucky

Birch Monroe, 1901-1982, fiddler, Indiana, Kentucky

Charlie Monroe, 1903-1975, singer, guitarist, Kentucky

Bill Monroe (1911-1996) & the Blue Grass Boys, bluegrass music, Tennessee, Kentucky

Wiley Morris, 1919-1990, mountain string band member, North Carolina

Zeke Morris, 1916-1999, mountain string band member, North Carolina

Moving Star Hall Singers, shouts, jubilees, spirituals and ring games, South Carolina

Chet Parker, 1891-1975, hammer dulcimer, Michigan

Lesley Riddle, 1905-1980, guitarist, North Carolina

Louis Riendeau (1900-1985) Family, string band, New Hampshire, Quebec, Canada

Arsenio Rodriquez, 1911-1970, Afro-Cuban music, New York, Cuba

Quique Rodriquez, Afro-Cuban music, New York, Cuba

Grant Rogers, 1907-1979, singer and guitarist, New York

George Smith, square dance caller, Maryland

Don Stover, 1928-1996, singer and banjoist, Massachusetts, West Virginia

Merle Travis, 1917-1983, singer, guitarist, Tennessee, Kentucky

Turkish Band, New York

Ed Young, 1910-1972, black fife & drum corps member, Tennessee, Mississippi

Lonnie Young, 1903-1976, black fife & drum corps member, Tennessee, Mississippi

G.D. Young, black fife & drum corps member, Tennessee, Mississippi
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.1969, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials