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Subject: [NCDOGS] Dr Walt Wolfram on PBS
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:11:50 EDT

This is the program Dr Wolfram mentioned in his recent presentation.
Unfortunately it coincides with the D-OGS meeting, but there are ways to time-shift it
and view it at a later date.

The Queen Family: Appalachian Traditions & Back Porch Music
Wednesday, October 4, at 8:30 PM
For more than 70 years, the Queen family’s music has resonated in the
Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. This program invites viewers to experience
that tradition firsthand, by exploring the story of this extremely musical
family. Directed by Neal Hutcheson, a videographer with NC State’s College of
Humanities and Social Sciences, under the direction of executive producer Dr. Walt
Wolfram, this acclaimed documentary captures true Appalachian culture and
authentic American music traditions at their source, in all their unvarnished
charm. Throughout this half-hour special, Queen Family matriarch Mary Jane Queen,
92-years-old vividly recalls the songs and lore learned in childhood and
shares how her marriage to Claude Queen in 1935 united two of Appalachia’s most
gifted musical families. The family songs come in many forms, from many sources,
offering entertainment, instruction or consolation and the music, whether
joyful, lighthearted, or dark, distills the soul of this unique mountain
culture. Take a musical journey - in “toe-tappin’, knee-slappin’’ style - to Mary
Jane Queen’s back porch, where the 92-year-old family matriarch and her eight
children still sing their own brand of mountain folk music.  To find out more
about this family and to see video clips of the program, please click here. 

Carol

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