The Buffalo National River and Music Rhythms of the River

Описание: "Rhythms of the River" is part of the 50-year anniversary of the Buffalo National River. This celebration of traditional and new music, instruments and dance of the Ozarks took place at the School House meeting rooms in historic Gilbert, Arkansas, on Saturday, July 30, at 2-3:30 p.m.

The concert explored two very different ways of honoring our Ozark traditions. Roy and Aviva Pilgrim of the Ozark Highballers are superb practitioners of music as it existed along the Buffalo River a hundred years ago. Their performance included with demonstrations of traditional dance and stories about the origins of the songs. https://www.theozarkhighballers.com/.

Kelly and Donna Mulhollan of Still on the Hill shared their collection of original Buffalo River story songs entitled "Still a River," first released in 2016. While the music is new, it is also well anchored in the Ozark musical traditions of old. http://www.stillonthehill.com/.

Professor Bob Cochran, director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, organized the program with Joshua Youngblood, rare books librarian and head of the University Libraries Special Collections Instruction and Outreach Unit. This event is part of The Digital Buffalo project, which has been sponsored by the U of A Chancellor's Innovation Fund and is organized by Youngblood and Trish Starks, director of the U of A Humanities Center.

Future events are planned at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and other community spaces. News on upcoming events, as well as videos of past events and a developing library of digital documents from the Ozark Society, is available at the project website: https://digitalbuffalo.uark.edu/.