1990 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection
By: sponsored by the American Folklife Center
Contributors: Cephas, John, performer; Wiggins, Phil, performer; Lynn Morris Band; Klezmer Plus (Musical group); Életfa (Musical group); True Tones Gospel Singers; Otonowa (Musical group); American Folklife Center; Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
Series: Neptune Plaza concert series
Published: 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Klezmer music; Dance music; Dance orchestra music; Gospel music; Music; Hungarian Americans; Blues (Music); Folk music; Black Dance; Folk dancing; Cuban Americans; Popular music; Jews; African Americans; Bluegrass music; Rumba (Dance)
Other titles: Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1990; American Folklife Center concert, 1990
Description: The collection consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of bluegrass music, klezmer music, Hungarian folk dance and music, Piedmont blues music, gospel music, and Afro-Cuban music and dance recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1990, sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the National Council for the Traditional Arts. Concerts were broadcast live on WAMU-FM. Manuscripts include some correspondence and program flyers autographed by the performers.
Notes: The group True Tones Gospel Singers is called True Tone Gospel Singers in the publicity materials and in the finding aid for this collection, and variously as the True Tones Gospel Singers and Truetones on their letterhead and correspondence.

Photographs include negatives, black and white contact sheets (322 images), photographic prints, and color slides photographed by Greg Jenkins, David A. Taylor, Jim Higgins

Collection is open for research; access restrictions for some materials may apply. Please contact the Folklife Reading Room before requesting materials:  folklife@loc.gov ; 202-707-5510.

1990 Neptune Plaza Concert Series Collection (AFC 1990/012), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

in English.

in English, Hungarian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.
Table of contents: title: April 19: The Lynn Morris Band (Bluegrass); title: May 17: Henry Sapoznik and Klezmer Plus (Klezmer); title: June 21: Életfa (Hungarian); title: July 19: John Cephas and Phil Wiggins (Piedmont Blues); title: August 16: The True Tone Gospel Singers (Gospel); title: September 20: Otonowa (Afro-Cuban)