Broom makers, shoe cobblers, and luthiers — along with gospel singers, Kurdish musicians and square dance callers — all have taken part in Tennessee’s apprenticeship program to preserve traditional folk art forms.
How One Tennessee Family Saved A Trove Of Disappearing Folk Songs
Listen Songs can go extinct. Lose track of the words, or the tune by which to sing them, and the oral tradition of passing on folk songs can become a precariously thin thread through history. But one family — even one singing amongst themselves way out in the country — can do a lot of […]
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