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Show o ouob : dlJuog Li L.IUld j V v c ft-.- vn- V i N - ' : ' t I :" : The 22nd year ot the annual Mountain Music and Folk I Festival a Chapel Hill, N. C, was a sell-out, and to Bas- 5 com Lamar Lunsford, "minstrel man of the mountains," goes the major portion of the credit. In the photo above the Ruby Lovingood string band from South Turkey Creek plays one of the old songs of the hills. L J - I AA t " i i I J.. -f )l$ "V ' aV h I f y Yrf ) X Lunsford (above) has been director of the festival for all its 22 years. He is said to know more mountain ballads than any other person in America and has recorded over 600 tunes for the Folk section ot the Library of Congress. rs 'A , . I 11 f ,f "Aj ' T ' ( Shown playing her five-string banjo (above) Aunt Sail Sa-il mantha Bumgardner has an inexhaustible repertory of an- cient ballads. She is always one of the favorites at the I festival. At left, you can almost hear Peggy Baker, 18, I give out with her version of a mountain ballad, accom-I accom-I panicd by Ruth Burleson on the guitar. ' . s " , A H 1 A'- 'Wv-t 4vJ I v A A x r xl & A A 1 ' It wasn't all mountain music ind dancing at the festival. Here, at right, the North Carolinians Caro-linians see guest performers in the type of dance which is being be-ing presented at the International Interna-tional Folk Festival in Venice, Italy, this month. This is a dance team from Amarillo, Texas. Both Texas and western North Carolina teams will represent rep-resent the United States at Venice. Below, light-footed mountain youngsters go through the same dance steps their grandparents used to do. |