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MF 017 F.O.L.K. (Focus on Local
Knowledge) Collection
Number of
Interviews:
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1994-1996
Time period covered: 1994-1996
Principal interviewers: n/a
Finding Aides: none
Access Restrictions: none
Description: 2605 Collection consists of 116 video tapes (ca.
150 hours) produced by Don Depoy, founder of F. O. L. K., Inc.
(Focus On Local Knowledge) “a non-profit Maine based corporation
dedicated to the performance and preservation of traditional music.”
Tapes contain raw footage and edited masters for a series of TV
programs entitled “Mainely Bluegrass” broadcast on Maine Public
Television in 1996. Footage features music groups taped at the
Breakneck Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Crawford, Maine (1994) and
the Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival in Sydney, Maine (1995).
Artists include Evergreen, the Stevens Family, Sassygrass, Bluegrass
Supply Company, the Gibson Brothers, the Sandy River Ramblers,
Smokey Greene, Eddie Poirier and the Bluegrass Four, Simon St.
Pierre, Kenny Baker & Josh Graves, the Lewis Family, Shady Creek,
Yodellin’ Slim Clark and others. Also, a series of tapes for a
program called “Women and the Franco-American Experience” featuring
a concert of Franco-American music presented at the University of
Maine with groups Psaltery, Jete Le Po, and Souterie.
V187 - V303 / C1814 - C1817
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