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- Identifier:
- 4224.BingDave.AudioInt.6.21.17
- Title:
- Oral history of Dave Bing
- Date:
- 2017-06-21
- Creator:
- Bing, Dave, 1955-
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Hammons (Family : W. Va.), Fiddling, Augusta Heritage Center, woodworking, Fiddle tunes, Musical instruments, Old-time music, and Bing, Dave, 1955-
- Location:
- Roane County (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/4224BingDaveIntTranscript62117 "Transcript of oral history of Dave Bing")
- Identifier:
- 4224.BingDaveIntTranscript6.21.17
- Title:
- Transcript of oral history of Dave Bing
- Date:
- 2017-96-21
- Creator:
- Bing, Dave, 1955-
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- woodworking, Bing, Dave, 1955-, Fiddle tunes, Old-time music, Hammons (Family : W. Va.), Musical instruments, Augusta Heritage Center, and Fiddling
- Location:
- Roane County (W. Va.)
![["Frank George (October 6, 1928 November 15, 2017), a Bluefield native, was a banjo player, fiddler, and piper, who also played piano, organ, hammer and lap dulcimer, and was a walking compendium of West Virginia traditional music history and jokes. He was the recipient of the 1994 Vandalia Award, West Virginias highest folklife honor. Jane George (November 11, 1922 February 19, 2018) helped launch the craft revival in the Mountain State through extensive fieldwork with traditional artists, educational programming, and by co-founding the Mountain State Art & Craft Fair at Cedar Lakes. She also hosted Mountain Heritage weekends and Kanawha County Parks Mountaineer Day Camps to teach young mountaineers about their cultural heritage, founded two Scottish dance troupes, and served as a 4-H agent in multiple counties. She was the 1993 Vandalia Award recipient."]](/thumb/4224GeorgeFrankGeorgeJanePhoto01141916 "Frank George shows off his unique Civil War-era banjo")
- Identifier:
- 4224.GeorgeFrankGeorgeJane.Photo.011.4.19.16
- Title:
- Frank George shows off his unique Civil War-era banjo
- Date:
- 2016-04-19
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Banjo, Stringed instruments, Old-time music, Folk music--West Virginia, and Musical instruments
- Location:
- Roane County (W. Va.)
