Jethro Burns Hiawatha Music Festival Performance
| Title: | Jethro Burns Hiawatha Music Festival Performance. |
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| Name(s): |
Burns, Jethro, creator Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival (Marquette, Mich.), contributor Hiawatha Music Non-Profit Corporation (Marquette, Mich.), contributor WNMU-FM (Radio station : Marquette, Mich.), contributor Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives, contributor |
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| Date Created: | 1986-07-18 | |
| Physical Form: | Radio programs | |
| Extent: | 1 item | |
| Abstract/Description: | Jethro Burns was born in Conasauga, Tennessee on March 10, 1920. He was a highly-influential mandolin stylist, preferring clean single-note jazzy melodies and sophisticated chords over the dominant bluegrass stylings of Bill Monroe, and since he performed mostly in a country music setting, introduced many country mandolinists to sophisticated jazz harmonies and improvisational techniques, as well as standards from the songbooks of Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt and Cole Porter. Burns died in 1989 from prostate cancer in Evanston, Illinois. | |
| Note(s): |
Performance by the artist at the Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan, an annual celebration of folk music; this edited version was broadcast by WNMU-FM on their program "In the Pines." |
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| Subject(s): |
Folk music Folk music festivals Marquette (Mich.) |
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| Held by: | Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives | |
| Restrictions on Access: | In copyright (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/) | |
| Is Part Of: | Hiawatha Music Cooperative Records. Identifier: MSS-405 | |
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