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![["On the evening of Wednesday, January 16, 2019, The West Virginia Folklife Program hosted a showcase of their Folklife Apprenticeship Program, featuring master gospel and blues musician Doris Fields (aka Lady D) with apprentice Xavier Oglesby, and master old-time fiddler John D. Morris with apprentice Jen Iskow. The free event was held from 5:30-7:30pm at the historic MacFarland-Hubbard House, headquarters of the West Virginia Humanities Council (1310 Kanawha Blvd. E), in Charleston. The evening included musical performances by the two pairs and a question-answer session, followed by a reception.Doris Fields, who performs as Lady D, is known as West Virginias First Lady of Soul. A West Virginia native, she began singing in church choir as a child and has performed original and traditional blues, gospel, R&B, and soul across the state and country, including for the Obama for Change Inaugural Ball. Xavier Oglesby grew up singing in the black Pentecostal church and has performed in local a capella and theatre groups. He recently recorded voiceovers for the New River Gorge African American Heritage Auto Tour. Both Fields and Oglesby reside in Beckley.John D. Morris, of Ivydale, is an acclaimed West Virginia fiddler and tradition bearer who has been honored by the Augusta Heritage Center, the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, the West Virginia Fiddler Award, and a National Heritage Fellowship for his role in sustaining the tradition. Jen Iskow, of Thomas, is a West Virginia University alumni, community organizer, artist, and designer at Beartown Design Studio. She has studied with numerous masters of Appalachian old-time fiddle.The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program offers a 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. 2018 was the first year of the biennial Folklife Apprenticeship Program.Read more about the apprenticeship pairs on the West Virginia Folklife blog:https://wvfolklife.org/2018/12/03/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-doris-fields-aka-lady-d-xavier-oglesby-blues-black-gospel/https://wvfolklife.org/2018/11/09/2018-master-artist-apprentice-feature-john-morris-jen-iskow-old-time-fiddling-and-stories-of-clay-county/"]](/thumb/4224ApprenticeshipShowcaseVideo00111619 "Clip of Jen Iskow playing \"Yew Piney Mountain\" at an Apprenticeship Showcase at the West Virginia Humanities Council")
- Identifier:
- 4224.ApprenticeshipShowcase.Video.001.1.16.19
- Title:
- Clip of Jen Iskow playing "Yew Piney Mountain" at an Apprenticeship Showcase at the West Virginia Humanities Council
- Date:
- 2019-01-16
- Creator:
- Keller, Mike
- Subject:
- Apprenticeship programs, Concerts, Old-time music, Folk music--West Virginia, Fiddle tunes, and Fiddling
- Location:
- Charleston (W. Va.)
![["Dave Bing is a fiddler and fiddle maker from Melissa, West Virginia, outside of Huntington. He now lives in Harmony in Roane County, West Virginia with his wife. As a young man, he spent time learning from many elder fiddlers in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, including the Hammons Family of Pocahontas County. Dave Bing has been a member of numerous old-time bands such as The Bing Brothers with his brothers Tim Bing and Mike Bing, Gandydancer with Gerry Milnes, and The High Ridge Ramblers with Mark Payne and Andrew Dunlap."]](/thumb/4224BingDaveVideo00162117 "Dave Bing plays the fiddle tune \"Waynesboro\"")
- Identifier:
- 4224.BingDave.Video.001.6.21.17
- Title:
- Dave Bing plays the fiddle tune "Waynesboro"
- Date:
- 2017-06-21
- Creator:
- Bing, Dave, 1955-
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Bing, Dave, 1955-, Folk music--West Virginia, Old-time music, Fiddle tunes, Hammons (Family : W. Va.), and Fiddling
- Location:
- Roane County (W. Va.)
![["Vernon John Burky was born to a Swiss family in Helvetia, West Virginia in 1925. He grew up speaking Swiss on his family farm, where his parents raised animals and managed a sawmill, and his grandparents operated a cheese house. They made Helvetia cheese, a type of Swiss cheese, similar to Emental, that was made throughout the Helvetia community and a staple in the diet of residents. As a child, Burky raised chickens and tapped maple trees on his family farm. As an adult, he was an active winemaker, a common pursuit in the Helvetia community. During his working years, Burky worked as a truck driver for a saw mill and a coal company. He learned to play fiddle as a child and started playing in the Helvetia Star Band, the local dance band for generations and the namesake of one of the villages two dance halls. He still plays in the group, which performs regularly for Helvetia square dances and events. This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]](/thumb/4224BurkyVernonVideo00191016 "Vernon Burky and friends play the fiddle tune \"Ragtime Annie\" at the Helvetia Community Fair")
- Identifier:
- 4224.BurkyVernon.Video.001.9.10.16
- Title:
- Vernon Burky and friends play the fiddle tune "Ragtime Annie" at the Helvetia Community Fair
- Date:
- 2016-09-10
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Fiddle tunes, Fiddling, Helvetia (W. Va.), and Old-time music
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
![["\"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.)
![["Dave Bing is a fiddler and fiddle maker from Melissa, West Virginia, outside of Huntington. He now lives in Harmony in Roane County, West Virginia with his wife. As a young man, he spent time learning from many elder fiddlers in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, including the Hammons Family of Pocahontas County. Dave Bing has been a member of numerous old-time bands such as The Bing Brothers with his brothers Tim Bing and Mike Bing, Gandydancer with Gerry Milnes, and The High Ridge Ramblers with Mark Payne and Andrew Dunlap."]](/thumb/4224DaveBingVideo00262117 "Dave Bing plays the fiddle tune \"Golden Star Hornpipe\"")
- Identifier:
- 4224.DaveBing.Video.002.6.21.17
- Title:
- Dave Bing plays the fiddle tune "Golden Star Hornpipe"
- Date:
- 2017-06-21
- Creator:
- Bing, Dave, 1955-
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Fiddling, Fiddle tunes, Hammons (Family : W. Va.), Folk music--West Virginia, Bing, Dave, 1955-, and Old-time music
- Location:
- Roane County (W. Va.)
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- Identifier:
- 4224.HerrmannJoeKarperDakota.AudioInt.9.14.20
- Title:
- Oral history of Joe Herrmann and Dakota Karper
- Date:
- 2020-09-14
- Creator:
- Herrmann, Joe and Karper, Dakota
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Fiddling, Fiddle tunes, Apprenticeship programs, and Old-time music
- Location:
- Charleston (W. Va.), Capon Bridge (W. Va.), and Hampshire County (W. Va.)
![["Joe Herrman (master artist, b. 1949) of Paw Paw in Hampshire County and Dakota Karper (apprentice, b. 1992) of Capon Bridge are participants in the 2020-2021 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, studying old-time fiddle. Herrmann is a founding member of the Critton Hollow String Band and has taught old-time fiddle to many private students and at the Augusta Heritage Center. Dakota Karper, a Hampshire County native, has been playing old-time fiddle for 20 years and runs The Cat and the Fiddle Music School. Herrmann and Karper apprenticed together previously in 2004 (when Karper was 11) through Augusta Heritage Centers former Apprenticeship Program.See the West Virginia Folklife Program feature on Herrmann and Karper: https://wvfolklife.org/2020/12/03/2020-folklife-apprenticeship-feature-joe-herrmann-dakota-karper-old-time-fiddle/"]](/thumb/4224HerrmannJoeKarperDakotaVideo001061720 "Joe Herrmann and Dakota Karper play the fiddle tune \"Rocky Mountain Goat\" from Mose Coffman")
- Identifier:
- 4224.HerrmannJoeKarperDakota.Video001.06.17.20
- Title:
- Joe Herrmann and Dakota Karper play the fiddle tune "Rocky Mountain Goat" from Mose Coffman
- Date:
- 2020-06-17
- Creator:
- Karper, Dakota and Herrmann, Joe
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Fiddle tunes, Folk music--West Virginia, Old-time music, Fiddling, and Apprenticeship programs
- Location:
- Hampshire County (W. Va.)
