The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
Hoi Toider, aka Ocracoke Brogue, is a dialect of American English spoken only on remote islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks. The unique accent and vocabulary developed over hundreds of years as a result of the area's isolation. Visitors often mistake the accent as foreign, but with origins dating back to the 1600s, Ocracoke Brogue is about American as it gets.
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Scotland County Highland Games | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
The Highland Games in Scotland County, NC celebrate the region's Scottish heritage with athletic competitions, music, dance, and more.
Steep Canyon Rangers
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Beer City: How Asheville Became Beer City
Tony Kiss, the beer reporter, has been following the local craft brew scene since 1994. He traces the history of Asheville craft beer from the launch of Highland Brewing Company through this year's announcements that both New Belgium Brewing and Sierra Nevada Brewing will build east coast expansion breweries here and Oskar Blues Brewing will build an operation in Brevard. With 10 craft breweries already operating in Buncombe County, and smaller nano breweries continuing to come on line, Asheville is poised to become the east coast craft beer center of the United States.
Appalachian English
Excerpt on Appalachian English from the documentary film Mountain Talk.
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ABOUT MOUNTAIN TALK
The people of Southern Appalachia tell the story of their diverse mountain culture and dialect in this popular film. Featuring Popcorn Sutton, Mary Jane Queen, Orville Hicks, Jim Tom Hedrick and many others, with back-porch music performed by Henry Queen, Mary Jane Queen, Gilford Williams, Rufe Sutton, Leon Wells and many others. Narrated by award-winning playwright and author Gary Carden.
Film by NEAL HUTCHESON
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Welcome to Calerin Forge Custom Iron & School of Ancient Craft
Welcome to Calerin Forge Custom Iron & School of Ancient Craft
Calerin Forge Custom Iron and School of Ancient Craft is a family owned and operated full service blacksmith shop and grassroots school located in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. We strive every day to tell our story through works produced using traditional forging methods that can be traced back through the ages as well as ensuring that The Craft lives on through small,informal eight week classes and weekend intensives.We are committed to producing the finest custom blades,tools,architectural pieces,and sculpture available to the area. The only limit is your own imagination...
The Most Beautiful Mountain Singer I Ever Heard
To get the 1 hour video, go to To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at patreon.com/allinaday. This scene presents the Winters, a husband and wife team singing Blackjack Davey. Way back in 1964, New York filmmaker, David Hoffman was headed down with his new 16mm hand help camera (weight 49 lbs!) to spend three weeks driving the backcountry around Madison County, North Carolina, in the center of Appalachia, with the 82 year old founder of the pioneer Asheville Mountain Music and Dance Festival, Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The resulting film, Bluegrass Roots lets you hear and experience the hard scrabbling, dirt road real people sounds that dominated the back country of the southern mountains 40 years ago. It presents a string of the most extraordinary singers, players and dancers the BlueGrass Mountains had to offer. Many later became famous. Some were never heard from again. Most of the songs are classics, including Lunsford's own tune, Mountain Dew.
When this film aired on Public Television in 1965, TV Guide gave it a full-page positive review, because Americans had never seen a documentary on the roots of Bluegrass and Country music. Today, the dirt roads and the moonshine counties are largely modernized, and Bluegrass Roots, stands as a record of a uniquely talented group of people at a time just before the coming of television, changed them. createspace.com/204609
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Oral History: Storyteller Connie Regan-Blake
Interview with storyteller and author Connie Regan-Blake.
Speaker Biography: Storyteller and author Connie Regan-Blake established the travelling storytelling team The Folktellers with her cousin, Barbara Freeman, in 1973. She was a founding member of the National Storytelling Network or NSN (formerly the National Association for the Preservation and the Perpetuation of Storytelling or NAPPS). Regan-Blake served as the Artistic Director from 1975 until 1983. She was awarded the Circle of Excellence in 1996 by the National Storytelling Network. The Folktellers also toured across the country, performing at folk festivals, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C. Regan-Blake and Freeman eventually moved on to solo careers, and both are internationally recognized storytellers. In addition to performances The Folktellers have produced three albums and a play, Mountain Sweet Talk.
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Genealogy News Episode 102
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00:01:27 1 Traditional folk music
00:01:37 1.1 Definitions
00:04:59 1.1.1 Characteristics
00:07:40 1.1.2 Terminology
00:07:49 1.1.2.1 Tune
00:08:27 1.2 Origins
00:12:20 1.3 Subject matter
00:14:56 1.4 Folk song transformations and variations
00:18:12 1.5 Regional forms
00:19:19 1.6 Early folk music, fieldwork and scholarship
00:19:43 1.6.1 19th-century Europe
00:22:20 1.6.2 North America
00:29:49 1.7 National and regional forms
00:29:59 1.7.1 Africa
00:30:44 1.7.2 Asia
00:31:25 1.7.2.1 Folk music of China
00:33:57 1.7.2.2 Traditional folk music of Sri Lanka
00:39:43 1.7.3 Australia
00:42:08 1.7.4 Europe
00:42:16 1.7.4.1 Celtic traditional music
00:44:23 1.7.4.2 Central and Eastern Europe
00:47:24 1.7.4.3 Balkan music
00:48:15 1.7.4.4 Nordic folk music
00:50:14 1.7.5 Latin and South America
00:53:51 1.7.6 North America
00:53:59 1.7.6.1 Canada
00:58:35 1.7.6.2 United States
01:06:32 2 Folk music revivals
01:09:28 2.1 First British folk revival
01:10:08 3 Contemporary folk music
01:10:18 4 Festivals
01:13:36 5 See also
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Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.
Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in U.S. English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.
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Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.
Starting in the mid-18th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (third) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in Romanian it shares a different name, and it often does not share the same people and animals as traditional music.
Radio Preservation Task Force 2: Commercial Caucus
Part of the 2017 multi-day conference, Radio Preservation Task Force 2: From Archive to Classroom, this discussion considered ways that the commercial radio broadcast community and the Task FOrce can build a symbiotic relationship that will insure both preservation and access to important cultural materials in the future.
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Nocino is a sticky dark brown liqueur from the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is made from unripe green walnuts. To make a truly authentic Nocino, one must use the most widely known walnut variety, the Juglans regia. The walnuts and the liquor have to be cut / handled using ceramic or wooden tools (in order to avoid oxidation) and placed in an alcoholic base. After steeping in spirit, the walnuts are removed and the now-black alcohol is mixed with simple syrup. Nocino has an aromatic, but bittersweet, flavor. It may be homemade; villages and even individual families often have their own (oftentimes secret) recipes, including different additions like cinnamon, juniper berries, lemon or orange zest, vanilla pods, coffee beans or clove. The classic base consists of Vodka. Nocino is also available commercially in bottled form. Commercially available Nocino is typically 40% alcohol by volume, or 80 proof.
According to Roman historians, the nocino actually was born in Britain. The earliest records are related to the Picts (from the Latin picti, meaning painted) so called by the Romans because they used to paint their skin in blue. The Romans also recorded the strange traditions of these people on June 24, when they drank a very special brew, and they said they could talk with goblins, with elves and Goddesses. When the Romans made Christianity the official religion of the Empire (in 313 AD), these ancient rites, in order to survive, had to be translated into the tradition of the Bible. Thus, they became associated to St. John the Baptist, who, according to the tradition, was born on the Summer Solstice. Nicholas Culpeper wrote, “The young green nuts taken before they be half ripe and preserved with sugar, are of good use for those who have weak stomachs.” He also mentions that ounce or two of a distillation of the same age of husk, is used to “cool the heat of agues and resist the infection of the plague.” This drink or potion made its way to Celtic France and to this day, a similar drink called liqueur or Brou De Noix is made in many French regions. At some point, this practice of infusing green walnuts came to the Italian peninsula where it became known as Nocino or, in the case of Piedmont, Ratafià Di Noci (walnut ratafià).During the Middle Ages, Italian monasteries used Nocino for its medicinal properties and also as an alcoholic treat.Ordine del Nocino Modenese is an association of Spilamberto, Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy which, since 1978, promotes the traditional Nocino of Modena. In an interview they describe an ancient custom: Witches were very fond of nuts, therefore on June 24, this very important date, they came out of the trees and wanted to steal the walnuts. And then the farmer, who did not want walnuts to be stolen, because he had to make Nocino, he made this big bonfire, this big fire, next to the walnut tree, and it was also a way of getting together - for the whole neighborhood.. In the same interview, they reveal a local legend: the reason for which the Nocino is made in the night between the 23rd and 24th of June is that, since it is an important Paganism as well as ChristianChristianity date, the walnuts are impregnated with a dew that is the panacea for all diseases!
According to tradition, the very best Italian Nocino requires barefoot virgins gathering an uneven number (21 or 23) of soft, green, dew-laden walnuts which they would leave to dry by the remains of the threshing fires that had been used to quicken the process of separating the wheat. Tradition also dictates that the walnuts have to be and harvested by hand, one at a time, so as not to damage the shell, during the “night of San Giovanni” or St John the Baptist Day (24 June). The date is appropriate, since this is the time when walnuts are still flexible, if one is too late, one may find that the walnuts have hardened, t ...