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National Folk Festival Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area September 21 - 23, 1984 WELCOME to the 46th National Folk Festival Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area September 21 - 23, 1984 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 With this festival we celebrate the discuss the needs ...." centenary of the birth of Eleanor An exhibit concerned with her life Roosevelt, a first lady not afraid to go and her contributions to the lives of into a coal mine, a friend who gave others is at this festival. A brief her presence and enthusiastic sup­ ceremony commemorating her life port to the National Folk Festival. She will be held at the opening of the was honorary chairman, but she was festival on Saturday. There's good not good at being an honorary reason not to do more; her con­ anything. Her direct involvement siderable disregard for speechifying helped immensely in the 1938 move on occasions like this one is well to Washington. There's an old letter known. And the National Folk from a secretary that begins, '' Mrs. Festival is itself a celebration of Roosevelt has asked me to tell you values very important to Mrs. that she will call in a few days to Roosevelt. 1 to make more people Festival 1s s1mp ~ 1 Park in their own From The Park Superintendent National Folk Festival aware of this Nationa sonally introduc­ Message others- but hthe the best of these and back yards-:-i~ fac~, ~er and meaningful Valle brings toget er Wel~o';:e to the Cuyahoga them to it in this und . the midst of others. ther important reasons ing y and its territories. Preser . many way. Because it is locate maho a Valley The Na~o~~~a~crea~ion_ Areal the National try' s living, cultural hv1~g the coun. There are ~ponsoring Culias incredi­ cosponsor and ho ~r~1ce is pleased to Na· millions of peopl_e, the ~ every bit as im orta entage seerns why we. a~ein the Cuyahoga Valley · to the ~olk Festival here sin to~·4?th National us to National Recreation Area 10 National Folk Fe;tival~~ so h?sting the ~olk Festlv ation Area. It enables of s:rv1~: one of bona} park We . s largest na- tional Recre le to utilize the park as ble potential for being . · sincerely ho th area is a logical and d ~ National Park t the Na­ own American public. That ~a es will enjoy the festival. And at y~u us to do. Frankly we'esirable thing for enc_our~get1.Po~o~d setting for their t to . ::ile you re an insp1ra . 'd r the most significant additions to y here, we hope you 11 cited to be a part~er inr~h~roudd and ex- artistic pursuits, an activity wile cons1 e · many years. e the park as w"::1. get to know and es . 11 Is en eavorl tional Park System m . kin enjoy We are most appropriate to the overa preserva· fulfill that wonderful promise of ~a g to h~st the . There are m~y reasons why the Na­ festival for th~e;~~oJcf'eased tion and use of the park. Every year w~ high quality, National Park_expe~iences Cuyahoga Valley N t·year,, here in the and photography compeh· tional Park Service is hosting this unique A · a Iona Recreaf also hold art available to all people in this region, a ll event. For_one thing, it preserves and re~ m northeastern Ohio. It enables•~~ tions and exhibits, and an ann~al Art people must be aware of the park and agam to showcase Oh' ' I and Nature Show. As a centerpiece of makes a~at~able to the public the finest h' t 10 s cu tural feel that it is a relevant and valuablE; part art and trad't• is ory, one of our important goals in the our arts activities, we hope to restore.the a re confident of• Amenca. h' s folk 11on~ a of their everyday lives. We m1ss10n_ ighly complementary to and ove~all process of preserving and inter­ historic village of Everett (located ~ust the National Folk Festival will g~ a long compatible with ours. The primary 'ob pretmg the history of the Cuyahoga u Riverview Road from the feshv~l way towards helping us make this truly si1e) as an artist-in-residen~e commum­ of the National Park Service is J to Val~ey and the Western Reserve and for all people. ty. The National Folk Festival helps us a park available for public their roles in the history of the nation. preserve 8?d make focus attention on our overall cultural th~ nation's most significant natural, Over the past four years we have Lewis S. Albert u~e events arts approach to interpreting th~ park h1stoncal, and recreational resources in presented several large cultural Superintendent Music Days, and its v alues to the general public. than 335 units of the National Park toward t_his end-Mountain more Days, Yiddish Days, Polka Perhaps one of the most important of United States Tarnbuntzan System throughout the Days, Gaelic Days, Gospel Days, and all our goals in hosting the National Folk EVEN I NG CONCERTS 46th NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL Friday Rubber City Retreads Saturday Eveready Singers 22 September 21 Lily May Ledford September Lotus Dickey 7:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M. Big Joe Duskin Whitsteins Anund Roheim Odadaa Milt Appleby and Joe Pomerleau Karin and Gary Haleamau and Benton Flippen and the Smokey Clyde Sproat Valley Boys Hezekiah and the Houserockers 3 2 Saturday Worksho s September 23 Openmg Ceremony El p Septernbe Sunday workshops , eanor Roosevelt Exhib't r 22 Main Stage 1 , 11:oo A Crafts 11:00 Stage 2 Benton Flippen Stage 3 -M. Stage 3 oe111on- Rubber City Midn Stage Stage 2 Milt & Laura and the Smokey Lotus Dickey Crafts Anna & Anund Valley Boys Retreads Appleby with strations De1t1on. 11:00 S.c:red Sou,rtd• Roheim Eveready Smgers Joe Pomerleau 11:30 strations •See below Lily May Ledford ·------ Cowboy Music Rubber City Big Joe Duskin New~imd-- Stories, & Poetry • Also see below 11:30 The Whitsteins Retreads Dance uslc of Montana and 12:00 with Milt & Sheepherding Hawaii Ken Trow- Hezekiah and the Laura Appleby bridge, Karin & (Crafts area) An~&~~- ------ Gary Haleamau Sheepherding - 12:00 Lotus Dickey Houserockers Roheim Eveready Singers Clyde Sproat ' demonstration ------- Boogie------ woogie (Crafts area) 12:30 Karin & Gary Plano Music: Lily May Ledford Big Joe Duskin ------ 12:30 Haleamau and Odadaa ------Whitsteins Clyde Sproat ------ Benton Flippen 1:00 and the Smokey Tall Tales and Fiddle Workshop Valley Boys Bible Legends ------ Benton Flippen 1:00 Odadaa Ken Trowbridge Hezekiah and the Milt Appleby & Isidore Reisman Houserockers Lotus Dickey Sheepherding 1:30 Clyde Sproat, Shape Note Brother Style Anund Roheim area) Karin and Gary Sheep herding 1:30 Voc:al Workshop Vocals (Crafts Haleamau ------ demonstration ------ Eveready Singers The Whitsteins Dixieland Jazz (Crafts area) Big Joe Duskin Rubber City 2:00 Benton Flippen Retreads Banjo Workshop and the Smokey 2:00 Lily May Ledford ----- ~Tr~bridge- ------ ------- Lotus Dickey Valley Boys Eveready Singers Ken Trowbridge Paul Brown Gary Haleamau 2:30 Lotus Dickey Anund and Anna 2:30 Milt & Laura Marty Schiltz Roheim Appleby with ------ ------ Hawaiian Songs Milt & Laura Joe Pomerleau Clyde Sproat Appleby and Sheepherding Hezekiah and Boogie Woogie Joe Pomerleau Sheepherding Hezekiah and the West Afric:an 3:00 3:00 !Crafts area) the Houserockers Piano Music demonstration Houserockers Drumming and ------ ------Eveready Singers Big Joe Duskin West African (Crafts area) Danc:ing Odadaa Drumming Lily May Ledford Odadaa 3:30 Anund and Anna 3:30 ------ ------ ------ Roheim ------ String Band Mu· Benton Flippen Cowboy Songs, Whitsteins Stories & Poet- sic of Round Pk, and the Smokey N.C. Benten 4:00 Lotus Dickey ry from Hawaii 4:00 Hawaiian Slack· Valley Boys & Montana Ken Key Guitar, Flippen & Smokey ------ Valley Boys Trowbridge, Karin Eveready Singers Ukulele Karin & & GivJ. Haleamau ~Haleamau, Sheepherding 4:30 Auction with Lily May Ledford & Cly e Sproat Sheepherding Cy e Sproat Lotus Dickey 4:30 demonstration auctioneer ·------ (Crafts area) ------ (Crafts areal Kenny Love Rubber------ City Ken Trowbridge Dixieland Jazz Odadaa Rubber City Retreads The Whitsteins 5:00 Big Joe Duskin West African Retreads 5:00 Dance Dance Party Odadaa 5:30 Benton Flippen f Japanese dollmaking, and the Smokey Dance Party O • Demonstration s all day of Hebrew callig h 5:30 • Demonstrations all day • instrument Valley Boys and • 10 om rugweavmg, k and marble engra;1ing, an auction demons;~i;~ stone Ukrainian papercuttm~, . and bonnet ma · Milt Appleby and Hezekiah and the making, and Amish qu1ltmakmg, cap Joe Pomerleau Japanese_ dollmaking, Ukrainian papercuttin I ' Caller: Lynn rugweaving, and instrume nt ma king. g, oom Houserockers ing Frederick 5 4 MUSIC Milt and Laura Appleby and Joe Pomerleau • leb is a New England fiddler Laura Appleby is not a fiddle~, b~t she_is ~;:!ti1'!for ~s spirited playing and for_a a ~ine harmonica player. She 1s with Milt Hawaiian Cowboys: Karin and Gary hu e repertoire of dance tunes. Milt this weekend. Haleamau- liv!s near Rochester, New Hampshire, Milt is a farmer and logge~ and he_u~s and Clyde Sproat and most of his fiddling is for country oxen in the wo~ds. He enJoys trfnmg dances. Dancing is a healthy tradition and working with ox~n and be 1eves there and contradancing is mixed with they are a good alternative to overly ex· ~ other country styles of New England. pensive machinery. They're. far more Milt performs with his sister, a pianist, powerful than horses and easier _to co~­ and often with Joe Pomerleau, a friend trol in the woods. Milt is expert m their for over twenty years.
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