POSTPONED UNTIL SUNDAY FEB.7 AT 7PM DUE TO DANIEL AND ALDONA BEING SNOWED IN W/O INTERNET ACCESS

Sunday January 31 * 7pm * REGISTER to receive Zoom link

Join Daniel Bachman and Aldona Dye for an "alternative folk song collection history" - a deep dive into the history of regional folk music and the musicians at the heart of the history, as viewed from the lens of the Virginia Folklore Society starting at the turn of the 20th century. Daniel says, "Everybody knows Lomax, and the Seegers, but for some reason these collectors [from the Virginia Folklore Society] have been forgotten, though the music is even more interesting."

Since its inception in 1913, the Virginia Folklore Society has documented an impressive collection of Virginia folk songs, lore, and community practices, yet much of their work has remained underexplored and underrepresented in the narrative of American folklife. Recently, however, the University of Virginia Library has digitized hundreds of ballads and traditional folk songs recorded by the society, and researchers Daniel Bachman and Aldona Dye have been digging into archived collections and interviewing living descendants of those involved in the society. Here, Daniel and Aldona share some of their findings in a multimedia presentation that includes photographs and sheet music from the archives, recordings representing some of the earliest recorded Virginia folksongs, and a short video made from an interview with Vicki Miller, the granddaughter of folk singer Texas Gladden.

Daniel Bachman is an acclaimed guitarist and composer, independent scholar, and longtime friend of Rhizome. Aldona Dye recently successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on her research into women collectors of folk ballads at the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music.

news.virginia.edu/content/digging-archives-uva-library-brings-old-folksong-recordings-light