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Mike Seeger

1933–2009 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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April 6–8, 1989 Sounds of the South conference marks the opening of UNC's Southern Folklife Collection More than 300 collectors, folklorists, musicians and archivists met at UNC-Chapel Hill for the official opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection. Daniel W. Patterson, who helped build the collection, was among the presenters with Alan Lomax and Mike Seeger. People: Daniel W. Patterson, Mike Seeger Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alan LomaxIn the index: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · UNC Libraries, Southern Folklife Collection: Sounds of the South Collection, 1989

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Daniel W. Patterson 1 entry: Sounds of the South conference marks the opening of UNC's Southern Folklife Collection (April 6–8, 1989)

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Winter Folk Festival recordings, 1976

Winter Folk Festival (1976 January 20-24 : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 1976

Recordings made at the Winter Folk Festival, which ran at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from January 20 to 24, 1976, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 70088. Performers and interviewees include Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Mike Seeger, John Cephas, Howard Armstrong and the Red Clay Ramblers. Ballads, banjo and fiddle tunes, blues, Cajun music and shape note singing are covered.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009.

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Sounds of the South Collection, 1989UNC-Chapel Hill University histories, exhibits, and research guides
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