Kentucky Folk Art Center
MOREHEAD- The Kentucky Folk Art Center displays the works of self-taught artists ranging from whimsical to disturbing.
Curator: Matt Collinsworth
Reporter: Marvin Bartlett, WDKY
The Kentucky Folk Art Center
With changing exhibits and a variety of artwork in different mediums, the Kentucky Folk Art Center is a welcoming environment for anyone interested in the visual arts.
New Photography Exhibit at Kentucky Folk Art Center
New Photography Exhibit at Kentucky Folk Art Center on September 4, 2014.
Artist Bonita Skaggs Parsons | Kentucky Life | KET
Artist Bonita Skaggs-Parsons has long used whatever was at hand to create her pieces. She likes to recycle and upcycle old newspapers and scraps of paper to create soft sculptures. A self-taught artist, she works in a variety of media, including wood carving and painting.
Her work has been exhibited at Appalshop in Whitesburg and at the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University.
She loves her Elliott County home. But with an artist's eye, she sees both the good and bad elements in the community. Her art makes strong statements about the impact the drug problem has had on her community. She and her daughter, Misty Skaggs, worked together on Prescription Panes, an exhibit of poems by Misty and art by Bonita depicting the prescription drug epidemic in Eastern Kentucky.
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Hell in a Size Twelve
A short documentary about Ronald and Jesse Cooper, two folk artists from eastern Kentucky. The collectively created works that detailed depictions of heaven and hell inspired by a terrible car accident that Ronald suffered and their many years in the church. Produced and Directed by Jeffery Hill. I served as editor, effects artist, and also did some additional shooting.
Kentucky Center fot Traditional Music /
Will the Circle Be Unbroken ,Rowan County Arts Crnter, Morehead Ky, Nov 2 2016
Fazoli's Freedom Fest Parade Morehead Ky
Fazoli's Freedom Fest Parade Morehead, Kentucky July 1, 2016
Video by David Slone
Americana Crossroads Live - John Lilly (Part 1)
John Lilly
This Old Knife/Roadkill
Americana Crossroads Live - Concert Series
5/31/2008
Morehead State Public Radio
Morehead Conference Center
Morehead, Kentucky
The University of Kentucky's Ronald Pen-Appalachia-School of Music
Ron Pen received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1987, with a dissertation on the biography and works of the American balladeer and composer, John Jacob Niles. He has continued his research in the area of American vernacular music with an emphasis on the music and culture of the Southern Appalachian region. Publications include book reviews, articles, forewords, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and documentary films focusing on topics such as shape note hymnody, early folk music collections, fiddle tunes, and traditional, country, and bluegrass musical styles.
Mississippi Sawyer (dance tune)- The Mountain Minor Movie, Pickin' Porch Concert , 15 Nov 2018
(music @ 1:40) The Mountain Minor is an independent feature length motion picture with a theatrical release in October 2019. This is a triple fiddle performance of Mississippi Sawyer by six actor/musicians from the movie. Teenage actor/musician Hazel Pasley stays busy on the end of the stage with her high energy flat-foot dance and she is joined there briefly in dance by Susan Pepper and Amy Nelson (Asa's mom). Trevor McKenzie (fiddler next to Hazel) arraigned and conducted the old-time sting band background musical score that runs throughout the movie.
Story synopsis by Director Dale Farmer from Mountain Minor Movie Facebook:
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The Mountain Minor is an award winning Appalachian music film that follows an old fiddle through five generations of the Abner family as they leave their Kentucky mountain home in 1932 to find work in Cincinnati. The film features authentic live music by its actors; Dan Gellert, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Mike Oberst & The Tillers, Susan Pepper, Ma Crow, Trevor McKenzie, Asa Nelson, Hazel Pasley, Warren Waldron, Judy Waldron, Lucas Pasley and Aaron Wolfe.
The Mountain Minor is truly an independent film. We’ll be finalizing our online viewing options and sales on the more popular services in 2020, but for now we have a limited first run of Blu-rays and DVDs that we’re making available on our own web site. These will make great Christmas gifts, especially to those older folks that the film is resonating with so strongly at our screenings so far. The cutoff date for Christmas delivery is quickly approaching and we have a limited supply so order soon!
We’re also showing the film in independent theaters, community centers, universities and in house concerts. Please contact Alyssa at mountainminoroutreach@gmail.com for more information about bringing the Mountain Minor to your home town.
While you’re on our web site you can check out our trailer and other information. (unquote)
Viewers, also check out this recent review that tells the movie story-line well:
The Mountain Minor Movie website:
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Other links are listed further down in the text.
This video digital recording was made on 15 November 2018 at the Appalachian Cultural Music Association (ACMA) former Pickin' Porch Stage in Kingsport, Tennessee. The Pickin' Porch has since left the Kingsport location.
Writer/Director Dale Farmer, Producer Susan Pepper, and several actor/musicians from the cast of the film The Mountain Minor visited Kingsport on 15 November 2018 to promote this film. In late 2018 the films post-production had been completed and the film was still being screened at numerous independent film festivals where it continued to be well received. Director Dale Farmer has several web resources with links listed below that provide a listing of awards won at these film festivals and other details of the film. The movie story revolves around the traditional music that was part of the Abner family's home culture, and a fiddle that united five generations of this mountain family whose second and third generation migrated northward to the Cincinnati, Ohio area from the southern mountains of Kentucky in search of work in the 1930s. The folk music of the southern mountains is said to have found it's way into the evolution of diverse genre of modern music with mixing of the musical art of rural mountain cultures and the art of the urban industrial cultures of the mid-twentieth century. The Abner family in the story is loosely based on Dale Farmer's own family history and some actual events through several generations of his family.
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Referring to the following links, the Mountain Music Museum in Kingsport, Tennessee was dismantled and closed by the ACMA Board Of Directors in July 2019. Rick Dollar, former Executive Director of the Mountain Museum, quoted or interviewed in the following articles is no longer affiliated with the ACMA (Appalachian Cultural Music Association).
Mountain Music, Kentucky Center For Traditional Music
KCTM, Mountain Music, Samantha Cunningham, Michelle Canning, Andrew Preston, Andy Brown, Gabriel Bowen, Daxson Lewis, Scott Miller, Louis Magda
Kentucky Center for Traditional Music
The Lucky One, Rowan County Arts Center, Morehead Ky, Nov 2 2016
The People's Clinic (Updated Version)
A short documentary about a free clinic designed to help those in need in the community of Morehead, Ky.
Kentucky Mountain Music Ambassodors / Corrine, Corrina
Kentucky Center for Traditional Music / Morehead State University
Kentucky Center for Traditional Music
Rowan County Arts Center, Morehead Ky, Nov 2 2016
KCTM to Perform in China
Morehead State University's Kentucky Center for Traditional Music will showcase the musical traditions of the region and Commonwealth at the Tianjin Music Festival in Tianjin, China, August 6 & 7.
MSU Bluegrass Band / One More Dollar
#KCTM Sounds of our Heritage, Rowan County Arts Center, Morehead Ky March 27 2019
Kentucky Center for Traditional Music #CountryBand
Blue Kentucky Girl, Nov 2 2016 Rowan County Arts Center, Morehead Ky
MSU Old Time String Band / She Left Me Standing On The Mountain
Sounds of our Heritage, Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, Morehead State University, Rowan County Arts Center
October 17, 2018
WoodSongs 781: Celebration of the Music of Appalachia
On this broadcast we will be celebrating the Music of Appalachia, one of the most fertile musical regions in the world. After generations of isolation from most of America, some of the most influential and powerful artists have been born from this mountain region like Ricky Skaggs, Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, JP Fraley, Lee Sexton, Jean Ritchie and many others. To present this music in its most original and pure state, we have invited the staff and students of The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University to appear on the broadcast. It's home to one of the only accredited college-level bluegrass and traditional music programs in the nation. The staff and students of MSA recently went to China to showcase the music of Appalachia to Asian audiences. Appearing on this broadcast will be:
RAYMOND McLAIN a founding member of the legacy McLain Family Band and the director of the program/
JESSE WELLS is a master fiddler, mandolin player and traditional music scholar.
RUTH McLAIN-SMITH is also a founding member of the McLain Family Band, touring performer and instructor at the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music.
If you love the music and old-time front porch music of Appalachia, bring your family to this broadcast! This show will be packed with other students, staff members and surprise guests from this incredible program.
WoodSongs Kids: Meghan and Emily Bryant are sisters from Martin, Kentucky. Meghan has competed at the Morehead Old Time Music Festival for four years, placing first three times and second once. However, she says her favorite place to play is at square dances. Emily won the Morehead Old Time Music Festival for youth banjo in 2012. She placed third in 2013 and second in 2011.