Sidney Robertson Cowell recordings: Ditson Festival

FW-ASCH-7RR-0810

Recorded in: United States, New York (N.Y.), 1950.

PART 3; CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-0810 contains the third of four segments of a "concert of American folk music" which is a part of the "sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music" held in McMillan Theatre at Columbia University, in 1950, sponsored by the Alan Ditson Fund of the University. This tape is labelled Part III; parts I, II and IV are on FW-ASCH-7RR-0808, -0809 and -0811. In addition to an unidentified introductory announcer, Sam Eskin and Sidney Robertson Cowell moderate. A typed program including all four segments of the concert, is included in the jewel box and tape box. In addtion to Jean Ritchie (Kentucky mountain singer and mountain dulcimer player), the tape includes: the Old Harp Singers (on Folkways record FW02356), who are from east Tennessee and sing shaped note hymn music from The Harp of Columbia; Mr. Everett Pitt (a traditional northern U.S. singer), who sings two unaccompanied ballads; and Don Baker from Michigan, who plays the hammered dulcimer. Sidney Robertson Cowell provides interesting information about the hammered dulcimer.