Not quite on topic, but of interest

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Khaverim --

This is not exactly Jewish music, but many of you will be interested:

"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the
Fort Valley Music
Festivals, 1938-1943
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed
Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/

The American Folklife Center of the Library of
Congress has announced
the availability of two new American Memory
collections of recorded
music. The first, Now What a Time, provides
access to over 100 sound
recordings and related documentation from what
may have been the
"first folk festival organized entirely by and
for African
Americans." The recordings feature guitar, banjo,
harmonica, and
choral arrangements. In addition to songs
recorded at the Fort Valley
Music Festival in Georgia, there are music
recordings from Tennessee
and Alabama made between 1938 and 1941. The
second collection, Fiddle
Tunes of the Old Frontier, features more than 180
original sound
recordings of traditional fiddle tunes performed
by Henry Reed of
Virginia. The recordings are accompanied by field
notes taken in
1966-67 by folklorist Alan Jabbour, a glossary of
musical terms, 69
musical transcriptions, as well as photographs,
and a biographical
sketch of Reed's life. 

Best,
George Robinson

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