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Show agtafcauM teOfeUS $ a RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH rOTTNTY REAPER. Carolina North in Music Mountain Like They m. CHEERFUL CHERUB "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers I ctnnot WNU Features. By NANCY PEPPER FOOLIN WITH SCHOOLIN work and no play is a fine way to get good marks in school, but how about good times? Here are some extracurricular tricks that textyou wont find in any of your but the great reservoir of folk music and dance in the Southern Appalachians is stronger than ever and spreading out of its home all over the country. Eighteen years ago, Bascom Laof mar Lunsford, a farmer-lawye- r N. brooded C., unhappily Leicester, over the fact that the old songs, stories, and dances he had heard and seen in his mountain childhood were dying out. The radio, juke box, and resort dhnce hall penetrated the mountains and captured the imagination and loyalty of youngsters. Such folklore as one saw was being watered down, or caricatured by hillbilly and cowboy outfits, and ridiculed in vaudeville. That brooding resulted in the birth of the Asheville, N. C., annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. Everyone said that the people mostly who still knew and loved the Appalachian folklore would nevold-time- rs er participate in public performances. Only a few of his old friends came to Lunsfords first festival . . . but ever since have been joined by a growing group of their neighbors, descendants, and other converts to the old tunes and steps. They came from places with homely names as Loafers Glory, Soco Gap, Spook Creek and Sickmill Creek. And they also came from the faraway Smokies, bearing the sonorous names of the Indian country from Stecoah, Nantahala, Hiawassee, and Cullasaja. Ashevilles Biggest Event. Now the Annual Folk Festival any event held in Asheville. Some 600 amateurs perform dancers, clog dancers, and over a dozen formally organized square dance teams, not to mention fiddlers, string bands, banjoists, vocalists and choirs. This year the City Auditorium was packed to SRO for the event and many of the audi- -' ence were returned servicemen and women seeing and hearing Appalachian lore for the first time. Regular attendants have learned to know and love the old ballads. The festival has resulted in expansion of interest in the old entertainment. A new generation of square dancers is growing up, and out-dra- buck-and-wi- WHOOPS! Improvised figures such as this put color and zip into the dance contests, but the judges are inclined to frown on such departure from traditional square dance routine, and the team that sticks closest to the way granddad did it most frequently wins. The spectators, however, enjoy these tricky variations. tradiyoungsters are learning the difficult sations. There are, however, to all known votional square figures Young profession of caller. calists are learning and carrying on dancers, and a lively caller with a trouthe songs of the Anglo-Saxo- n large and colorful repertoire, somebadours which have remained fugi- times may be imported a hundred tive in the Appalachians for genera- miles to call a gala dance. Some of them are singers that is, they tions. Lunsford has not let the citified call the figures in time with the performance destroy the informality music, often with humorous interpelwhich is the very heart of folklore. lations. A real mountain square dance is He refuses to issue a program, and no of calls master ceremonies as up place for soulful neckers. While and introduces performers as the a light, springing, slightly gliding notion strikes him. No time for the step is the ideal, actually it is often show is set it starts about sun- more vigorous, ranging from enerdown and runs until the performgetic to stomping. There is little ers are tired. Annual championships chance for conversation, because it awarded. One championship is essential to listen to and watch team the Soco Gap group, led by the caller closely, and there is a the notable caller, Sam Queen, great deal of changing of partners, played and danced a command per-- with the figure being changed suddenly and frequently. Usually, after about every four figures, the caller announces a big ring movement such as Promenade or Grand Right and Left. Music, usually violin, guitar and g banjo, follows a lively, headlong style (about 140 quarter notes to the minute), with the time sharply accented on the first note of each measure. This is quite a pace for beginners, and since a set often lasts 15 or more minutes, it often leaves the 16 or more participants laughing, flushed, exhilarated, but breathless. Lunsford himself has become a nationally known authority on folk-orOnce he sat down and dictated from memory 316 old ballads for Columbia university. He hunts ost fragments of ballads like a bird-do- g stalks quail, and has chanced upon many rare songs which had been thought lost forever, but which survived in the dying memory of some occupant of a remote mountain cabin. the drool out of school without bringing your average down too many points. One of the best Patriotic Pin-Up- s War money in to raise Stamp ways Girl and a announce school is to Pin-U-p and contest charge a Boy War Stamp for every picture entered. The girls enter the pictures of their O.A.O. and the boys do vice A huge bulletin board is versa. erected for this purpose in the main lall where everybody can see the pictures. War stamp prizes go to the girl and boy whose entries bring the most votes during the week. Just to keep up the suspense, identify the contesting pictures with numbers and dont tell who submitted which until the winners are announced. Littered With Letters You dont have to win your school letters these days. Just buy those plastic initials in the dime store and spell out your school letters on your lapel or sweater. Be sure to buy the letters in the proper school colors. Witches and wolves are wild about em. five-strin- 2-- 4, e. The Rambling Rhymster This melancholy fiddler at the festival brought his chair up to the stage so he could .tap his foot on it in tempo. A chair is a necessary prop for many of the musicians ' around Asheville. By LES PLETTNER OBSTACLES Do first-priz- X tkmU,, Feel well teU. ' Girls and boys lf are wearing miniature hour glasses on their lapels with a little sign above ihem that says Kiss-Timer- s. 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How To Relieve Bronchitis blow-by-blo- formance for the king and queen of England. All of them are amateurs farmers, schoolchildren, lumberto. ers, mill workers, teachers, in their ordinary occupations. By PHYLLIS BELMONT Both the songs and dances of the Appalachians tend to grow and change because of the casual transmission from minstrel to minstrel. But attempts to superimpose radical changes are frowned upon. At this years competition, one dance team, neatly costumed, smoothly performing, with several jive innovations, was easily the most popular with the crowd of visitors. The judges, however, brought in a e verdict for a team of ordinary mountain dancers, clothed in about the sort of clothes they ordinarily would wear to a neighborhood dance. Square Dance Contests. Most spectacular and most popuQuestion I was so embarrassed lar competition at the Festival is when some old friends from out of among these square dance teams town stopped in the other night just The traditional square dance is perat dinner time. I could not ask them formed by only four couples (whence to dinner, but served them tea. its name) but in the Southern ApShould I have apologized in any palachian settlements its character was altered. Everybody who came way? Answer I think you did very well was permitted to dance, and the in these days to serve them at all. number has no practical limitations. Tea is comforting, warming and hos- Traditionally, the dance master, or caller, was a musician or spectapitable and I am sure they would not expect you to give them dinner. tor. 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