Scope and Content
Collection of audio recordings made at various bluegrass festivals and performances in the United States by Jun-ichi Yamada from 1972 to 1976 in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and a few other unspecified geographic locations. The festivals include Carlton Haney's Bluegrass Festival at Watermelon Park, Berryville, Virginia; Bluegrass Music Festival in Bluegrass Park, Campsprings, North Carolina; the Newgrass Festival of 1974; the Wise County Shrine Club Bluegrass Festival; the 2nd Carter Stanley Memorial Festival, McClure, Virginia; the 7th Annual Culpeper Bluegrass and Folk Music Festival, Culpeper, Virginia; Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Festival, Bean Blossom, Indiana; Old Time Family Bluegrass Festival, Callaway, Maryland; Georgia State Bluegrass Music Festival, Lavonia, Georgia; Bluegrass Bonanza Showcase, Indiansprings, Maryland; and the Indiansprings Bluegrass Festival, Hagerstown, Maryland. Instrumentals and songs are performed with banjo, dobro, double bass, guitar, mandolin, and fiddle accompaniment, among other instruments. Tape containers included partial documentation--lists of performers and titles for some tape reels. Collection also includes copies of festival flyers, one photograph, and other ephemera. A few lists and annotations are in Japanese.
Various performers including J. D. Crowe, Jim Eanes, Billy Edwards, Bill Emerson, Lester Flatt, Jimmy Gaudreau, Bill Harrell, Tex Logan, Jimmy Martin, Del McCoury, Jesse McReynolds, Jim McReynolds, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Red Smiley, Carl Story, Don Stover, Fiddling "Tater" Tate, Cliff Waldron, Doc Watson, Chubby Wise, and Mac Wiseman. Some of the performing groups include Blue Grass Boys, Blue Ridge Boys, Blue Sky Boys, Clinch Mountain Boys, Country Gentlemen, Country Grass, Country Store, Dixie Bluegrass Boys, Dixie Gentlemen, Dixie Pals, II Generation, Lilly Brothers, McCormick Brothers, New Grass Revival, New Shades of Grass, New South, Osborne Brothers, Rice Brothers, Seldom Scene, Shenandoah Cut-Ups, and Sunny Mountain Boys were on the programs for these festivals.