Show p V c P tF k s' s tF t f S t y S S. S S. S U i iThe 1 S. R The year of or the annual Mountain Music and Folk Festival at Chapel Hill N. N C C. was a sell out and to Bas com corn Lamar Lunsford minstrel man of the mountains goes the major portion of the credit In the photo above 1 11 the Ruby Lovingood string band from South Turkey Creek I plays one ono of the old songs of the hills r t r i Lunsford above has been w s director of the festival for allIs all aRc v ts F s sac Is 22 years ears He is is said to know tore sore mountain ballads than s d r my other person in in America Americo md led has recorded over n tunes lines for the Folk section of oftie tie the e Library of Congress et a I I Shown playing her string five-string banjo above Aunt Sa- Sa t manth Bumgardner has an inexhaustible repertory of ancient an Ii dent ballads She is always one of the favorites at the festival At left you can almost hear Peggy Baker 18 I rE x give out with her version of a mountain ballad acc accompanied m- m j z by Ruth Burleson on the guitar I 5 5 t 1 1 S SIt i I It wasn wasn't t all mountain music t tand and md dancing at the festival Here jere at right the North Carolinians Caro Cora see guest performers in inthe inthe the type of dance which is being be be- I ing 9 presented at tho the International International Folk Festival in Venice Italy toly this month This is a o aI I dance team from Amarillo Amarillo Ir Texas Both Texas and western North Carolina teams will represent rep rep- i f resent ent the tho United States at I Venice nice B Below e I o w light footed e k I 01 mountain 0 U n to in youngsters go through rough the same dance steps their grandparents used to do 5 I 11 r k kF r F t tits r f r. r S 4 5 t x k fP tT T N p s. s S 5 5 S m |