Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line

Participants:

Frances Mann Riale [biography]
Danny Paisley [biography]
Dave Reed [biography]
Del McCoury [biography]
Ronnie McCoury [biography]

This panel will include musicians from the Mason-Dixon region whose musical heritage is connected to the Appalachian migration that brought Ola Belle Reed from the Southern Mountains to Cecil County, Maryland, during the Great Depression.

View the video of Panel 2. Also on Library of Congress YouTube

3:00-4:30

Panel 2: "Boxes Full of Memories": The Making of Ola Belle Reed & Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Moderator: Dr. Betsy Peterson, Director of the American Folklife Center. [biography]

Participants:

Henry Glassie [biography]
Clifford R. Murphy [biography]
Douglas Dowling Peach [biography]
Lance Ledbetter [biography]

This panel will consist of a conversation of the authors, recordists, and producers of the recent Dust-To-Digital publication project, Ola Belle Reed & Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line. It will also concern the parallels between the arc of the project and the development of the field of Public Folklore.