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Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely"

Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely" Mike Wray Cary Ayers Making Baskets Wayne Speer Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains by JEAN HASKELL SPEER On a warm September evening in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains, Clay Shelor carefully escorts his elderly grandparents to front-row auditorium seats for a special event. His affection and respect for them are unmistakable and their faces beam with love for him. Fifteen-year-old Clay goes to the stage, takes up his fiddle and begins to play. He plays his grandfather's boyhood fiddle, a gift, and the tune is "Callahan," the first song his grandfather learned more than seventy years ago. Later Clay is joined onstage by his father, Jim, who plays guitar, his fiddleplaying Uncle Bill, and family cousin Buddy Pendleton, five-time champion fiddler. They play rollicking old tunes with such enticing names as "Whistlin' Rufus," "Golden Slippers," "Possum Trot," and "Soldier's Joy." Clay then coaxes his grandmother on stage to accompany him with her fastmoving piano style on "Waltz Kitty Waltz" and "Mississippi Sawyer." To close the Jean Speer Clay Shelor and Jim Shelor evening Clay's two sisters, home from college, harmonize with their father on the gospel song, "Down in the Valley to Pray." What binds the generations of this family http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Folklife in the Blue Ridge: "It'll last indefinitely"

Appalachian Review , Volume 12 (2) – Jan 8, 1984
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Mike Wray Cary Ayers Making Baskets Wayne Speer Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains by JEAN HASKELL SPEER On a warm September evening in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains, Clay Shelor carefully escorts his elderly grandparents to front-row auditorium seats for a special event. His affection and respect for them are unmistakable and their faces beam with love for him. Fifteen-year-old Clay goes to the stage, takes up his fiddle and begins to play. He plays his grandfather's boyhood fiddle, a gift, and the tune is "Callahan," the first song his grandfather learned more than seventy years ago. Later Clay is joined onstage by his father, Jim, who plays guitar, his fiddleplaying Uncle Bill, and family cousin Buddy Pendleton, five-time champion fiddler. They play rollicking old tunes with such enticing names as "Whistlin' Rufus," "Golden Slippers," "Possum Trot," and "Soldier's Joy." Clay then coaxes his grandmother on stage to accompany him with her fastmoving piano style on "Waltz Kitty Waltz" and "Mississippi Sawyer." To close the Jean Speer Clay Shelor and Jim Shelor evening Clay's two sisters, home from college, harmonize with their father on the gospel song, "Down in the Valley to Pray." What binds the generations of this family

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1984

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