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Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely"

Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely" Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely" Jean Haskell Speer Appalachian Heritage, Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 1984, pp. 4-10 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1984.0060 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438472/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:43 GMT from JHU Libraries Mike Wray Cary Ayers Making Baskets 4 Wayne Speer Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely" by JEAN HASKELL SPEER On a warm September evening in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains, Clay Shelor carefully escorts his elderly grandparents to front-row auditorium seats for a special event. His affection and respect for them are unmistakable and their faces beam with love for him. Fifteen-year-old Clay goes to the stage, takes up his fiddle and begins to play. He plays his grandfather's boyhood fiddle, a gift, and the tune is "Callahan," the first song his grandfather learned more than seventy years ago. Later Clay is joined onstage by his father, Jim, who plays guitar, his fiddle- playing Uncle Bill, and family cousin Buddy Pendleton, five-time champion fiddler. They play rollicking old tunes with such enticing names as "Whistlin' Rufus," "Golden Slippers," "Possum Trot," and "Soldier's Joy." Clay http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely"

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Appalachian Review , Volume 12 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely" Jean Haskell Speer Appalachian Heritage, Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 1984, pp. 4-10 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1984.0060 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438472/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:43 GMT from JHU Libraries Mike Wray Cary Ayers Making Baskets 4 Wayne Speer Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely" by JEAN HASKELL SPEER On a warm September evening in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains, Clay Shelor carefully escorts his elderly grandparents to front-row auditorium seats for a special event. His affection and respect for them are unmistakable and their faces beam with love for him. Fifteen-year-old Clay goes to the stage, takes up his fiddle and begins to play. He plays his grandfather's boyhood fiddle, a gift, and the tune is "Callahan," the first song his grandfather learned more than seventy years ago. Later Clay is joined onstage by his father, Jim, who plays guitar, his fiddle- playing Uncle Bill, and family cousin Buddy Pendleton, five-time champion fiddler. They play rollicking old tunes with such enticing names as "Whistlin' Rufus," "Golden Slippers," "Possum Trot," and "Soldier's Joy." Clay

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