Old Time Photo Gallery -- Page 8

Here are some more photos of friends, mentors, and heroes. Last updated December 28, 1997.

Joe Birchfield, the fiddler for the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, in action at the National Folk Festival, Bath, Ohio, September 1983. The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, from Cloudland, Tennessee, at the National Folk Festival, 1983. Creed on banjo, Joe on fiddle, Bill "backwards and upside-down" on guitar, and Bill's wife, Janice, on the washtub bass, Birchfields all.

Group photo at the Greene-McWhirter homestead in Celo, NC, early '90s: Kerry, Ronco (doing his Prince Albert Hunt imitation), Bruce, Megan, Loy, Liza. Bill Dillof plays his Stroh violin, Long Island, June, 1984.

The Duwamps Cloggers, Seattle Washington, probably early '80s. Laura , Chris, Skip, [hidden], Noreen, [hidden and hidden], Ron, Pat, David, Beth, John, Sheila, Luther. At the British-American Festival, Duke University, Durham, NC, June 1984: Lanny Johnson on guitar; Mack Snodderly on fiddle, Joe Wilson on microphone. Mack is from the Black Mountain/Asheville area in North Carolina.

Matokie Slaughter, of Pulaski, Virginia, plays fiddle in a workshop at the Kent State Folk Festival, Kent, Ohio, April 1987. Andy Cahan is on banjo and Dan Gellert works his tape recorder. Again at Kent State in 1987, Andy Cahan on fiddle, Alice Gerrard on guitar, Matokie Slaughter on banjo.
Matokie Slaughter and banjo, again at Kent State, 1987. At the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend Washington, July 4, 1988, The Matokie Slaughter Trio: Kerry Blech on guitar, Alice Gerrard on fiddle, Matokie on banjo.

Wayne Martin, Lauchlin Shaw, A.C. Overton at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, about 1989. At the Brandywine Mountain Music Festival, about 1983, Randy Johnson (awake) and John Hatton (not).
Sheila wins the first annual (and only) Pat-Conte-lifting contest at the Wheatland Music Festival, Remus Michigan, about 1983. Al Diamondstein (aka Al Opalschwartz) sings his hit "Weenie Man" on the Weenie-a-phone at the Kent State Folk Festival, April 1987.

Pat Conte and Sheila Blech, in front of Pat's home in Richmond Hill, NY, June 1984. Pat Conte confers with Andy Cahan at the Kent State Folk Festival in April 1987.

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