Elaine Purkey sings with a friend at Yasou Greek Restaurant

Identifier:

4224.PurkeyElaine.Photo.004.7.8.17

Title:

Elaine Purkey sings with a friend at Yasou Greek Restaurant

Date:

2017-07-08

Creator:

Hilliard, Emily

Description:

Elaine (Moore) Purkey is an activist songwriter and musician from Harts Creek, West Virginia in Lincoln County. She was born on May 29, 1949, on the same piece of property where she still lives. She was raised in a family of musicians and flatfoot dancers and attributes her powerful voice to the acapella singing she learned as a member of the Church of Christ. As a teenager she played in bands with her brother, and in early adulthood she was the lead singer of a local country band. In the 1980s, she began performing regularly on the Wallace Horn Friendly Neighbors Show, a live radio program out of Logan County that has been on the air since 1967. She now hosts the show. Elaine performed a concert at Yasou Greek Restaurant in McDowell County on July 8, 2017. The concert was sponsored by the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council and McArts.

Subject:

Working class--Songs and music, Purkey, Elaine

Rights:

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Location:

Kimball (W. Va.), McDowell County (W. Va.)

Format:

image/tiff

Source:

A&M 4224, West Virginia Folklife Program Collection