Fiddlers of Northern California (Selected recordings collected by Sidney Cowell)

Описание: In this video, I have highlighted three Californian fiddlers: John Stone, John Selleck, and Mrs. Ben Scott. All recordings are from the Library of Congress.

They were all recorded as part of a New Deal project, which was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and cosponsored by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center archive), this undertaking was one of the earliest ethnographic field projects to document European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and English- and Spanish-language folk music in one region of the United States. Cowell had hopes that it would provide a prototype for a national folk music collecting effort (Library of Congress).

0:00 Fiddlers of Northern California
0:11 Cuckoo - John Selleck
1:31 The Gray Eagle - John Selleck
3:50 Devil's Dream - John Selleck
5:57 Mrs. Ben Scott explains how she learned to play the fiddle
7:04 The Irish Washerwoman - Mrs. Ben Scott
8:55 Soldier's Joy - Mrs. Ben Scott
11:09 Leather Breeches - John Stone
12:47 Georgia Wagoner - John Stone
14:42 Love Somebody - John Stone