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![["\"I'm gonna try an old tune here that Jenes Cottrell used to play-- an old fella from Deadfall Run up in Clay County.\" West Virginia old-time musician, local historian, and collector Jim Costa performs \"Cherry River Line\" on banjo at the West Virginia Humanities Council MacFarland-Hubbard House, January 25, 2017.Jim Costa is a native of Summers County, and an accomplished traditional musician, storyteller, and local historian. He is also an avid collector and expert of 18th and 19th century farm tools and objects of rural life, including Hammons family fiddles, spinning wheels, cast iron cookware, and blacksmith tools. Costa has been building this collection throughout his life, and he restores many of the old tools and instruments himself. In addition to his public presentations on music and material culture, Costa appeared in the 1987 John Sayles film Matewan. Listen to the full tape of the concert here: https://soundcloud.com/user-521885027/west-virginia-folklife-presents-jim-costa-with-zoe-van-buren-12517Concert poster by Ratbee Press: http://www.ratbeepress.com/"]](/thumb/4224CostaJimVideo00312517 "Jim Costa performs \"Cherry River Line\" on banjo at a concert at the West Virginia Humanities Council")
- Identifier:
- 4224.CostaJim.Video.003.1.25.17
- Title:
- Jim Costa performs "Cherry River Line" on banjo at a concert at the West Virginia Humanities Council
- Date:
- 2017-01-25
- Creator:
- Costa, Jim (Banjoist)
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Cottrell, Jenes, Folk music--West Virginia, Banjo, and Fiddle tunes
- Location:
- Charleston (W. Va.)
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- Identifier:
- 4224.HairstonBill.AudioInt.001.9.10.19
- Title:
- Oral history of Bill Hairston, 1 of 2
- Date:
- 2019-09-10
- Creator:
- Hairston, Bill
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Hairston, Bill, African Americans--Appalachian Region, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp music, Fiddling, Storytelling, Fiddle tunes, Folk music--West Virginia, Racism, Old-time music, Banjo, Saint Albans (W. Va.), Big Coal River Valley (W. Va.), 4-H clubs, School integration, and Folklore
- Location:
- Charleston (W. Va.)
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- Identifier:
- 4224.HairstonBill.AudioInt.002.9.10.19
- Title:
- Oral history of Bill Hairston, 2 of 2
- Date:
- 2019-09-10
- Creator:
- Hairston, Bill
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Folklore, Saint Albans (W. Va.), African Americans--Appalachian Region, Old-time music, Folk music--West Virginia, Walker, John Homer, School integration, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp music, Fiddle tunes, Banjo, Racism, Fiddling, 4-H clubs, Big Coal River Valley (W. Va.), Hairston, Bill, and Storytelling
- Location:
- Charleston (W. Va.)
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- Identifier:
- 4224.JohnsonKimJordanCody.AudioInt.8.19.20
- Title:
- Oral history of Kim Johnson and Cody Jordan
- Date:
- 2020-08-19
- Creator:
- Jordan, Cody and Johnson, Kim (Banjoist)
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Fiddling, Apprenticeship programs, Festivals, Old-time music, Fiddle tunes, Folk music--West Virginia, and Banjo
- Location:
- Kanawha County (W. Va.), Charleston (W. Va.), and Spring Hill (South Charleston, W. Va.)
![["Kim Johnson and Cody Jordan were participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Kim Johnson, a resident of South Charleston led an apprenticeship in banjo traditions of central West Virginia with apprentice Cody Jordan of Charleston. Johnson began playing with fiddler Wilson Douglas in 1979 and has played with and learned from many acclaimed West Virginia old-time musicians including Frank George and Lester McCumbers. She has taught both locally and nationally, at Augusta Heritage Center, Allegheny Echoes, The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, and the Berkeley Old-time Music Convention. Jordan plays guitar in The Modock Rounders with Johnson, touring across the state and region, and is looking forward to expanding his knowledge of central West Virginia old-time banjo traditions.See our feature on Johnsons apprenticeship with Jordan here: https://wvfolklife.org/2020/09/04/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-kim-johnson-cody-jordan-banjo-traditions-of-central-west-virginia/The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers up to a $3,000 stipend to West Virginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. These apprenticeships aim to facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms, as well as their histories and traditions.The apprenticeship program grants are administered by the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council in Charleston and are supported in part by an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. West Virginia Folklife is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, presentation, and support of West Virginias vibrant cultural heritage and living traditions."]](/thumb/4224JohnsonKimJordanCodyIntTranscript81920 "Transcript of oral history of Kim Johnson and Cody Jordan")
- Identifier:
- 4224.JohnsonKimJordanCody.IntTranscript.8.19.20
- Title:
- Transcript of oral history of Kim Johnson and Cody Jordan
- Date:
- 2020-08-19
- Creator:
- Johnson, Kim (Banjoist) and Jordan, Cody
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Old-time music, Folk music--West Virginia, Fiddle tunes, Apprenticeship programs, Banjo, Folk music festivals, and Fiddling
- Location:
- Kanawha County (W. Va.), Charleston (W. Va.), and Spring Hill (South Charleston, W. Va.)
