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1. Indian Neck Folk Festival collection

   6986 items ; 7 containers ; 4.5 linear feet.. 48 sound cassettes (DAT) : digital.. 284 sound cassettes : analog.. 65 sound tape reels : analog ; 7 in.. 10 sound tape reels : analog ; 10 in.. 44 sound discs (CD-R) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 3 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. 3 video discs (DVD) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. moving images: 152 video files (MOV and MP4) : digital.. graphic images: 4453 photographs : digital, JPEG files, color.. graphic images: 54 photographs : film negatives, black-and-white ; 35 mm. graphic images: 654 photographs : photographic prints ; 8 x 11 in. and smaller.. sound recordings: 249 sound files : digital, WAV files.. manuscripts: 50 items (PDF, DOC) : text files.. manuscripts: 1050 items.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection of audio recordings of folk festival concerts, workshops, and informal events, produced at various locations in Connecticut and Pennsylvania by the Indian Neck Folk Festival from about 1961-2015. The collection also includes papers, photographs, videocassettes, posters, and digital files.

2. Caffè Lena collection, 1960-2013

   7767 items. 28 containers. 12 linear feet. 42 sound tape reels : analog ; 10 in.. 46 sound tape reels : analog ; 7 in.. 5 sound tape reels : analog ; 5 in.. 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 3 in.. 381 sound cassettes : analog and digital.. 13 videocassettes (VHS) : sound only ; 1/2 in.. 1 sound microcassette : analog.. 36 sound discs : digital.. 1942 audio files : digital, aiff, mp3, wav. 1 videocassette (U-matic) : sound, color.. 14 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color.. 2 videodiscs (DVD-R): digital.. 1 film reel (1100 feet) : analog.. 12 video files : digital, mov, mp4. approximately 1540 photographs : black and white, color ; various sizes.. 3504 pages.. 261 files : digital, pdf, doc. 3 objects.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection of more than 500 audio recordings, plus digital audio files, video recordings, film, photographs, papers, and ephemera documenting the history of the Caffè Lena coffeehouse, a folk music club and theater in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Lena Spencer and Bill Spencer in 1960. The collection includes a large number of live concert performance recordings by folk musicians and singer-songwriters, as well as some theater, storytelling, and poetry performances. The collection also includes folk music radio programs produced from Caffè Lena concerts by Robert Durand and others. Some materials were gathered by Jocelyn Arem while conducting research on the history of Caffè Lena, and the collection includes drafts and page proofs of Arem's book, Caffè Lena: Inside America's Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse (2013).

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3. Music of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company, 1989-1993

   approximately 14,000 items. 69 containers. 29.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   This collection contains scores and parts from the 1989-1993 period during which radio host Garrison Keillor took a hiatus from the weekly variety show A Prairie Home Companion and started a new radio show called American Radio Company. The program featured sketches and live musical performances similar to those of A Prairie Home Companion, but with a New York cultural focus (it was broadcast from the Brooklyn Academy of Music rather than from the Fitzgerald Theater in Minneapolis) and greater musical diversity. The house band for this period was "The Coffee Club Orchestra" led by music director Rob Fisher, with much of the music arranged by composer and music director Russell Warner.