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Doug Van Gundy & Annie Stroud: Fiddling Traditions of Eastern WV

WVHC Event

Location/County: Lewisburg, Greenbrier
October 05, 2018

Fiddling Traditions of Eastern West Virginia: Mose Coffman, Lee Hammons, The Hammons Family

Friday, October 5, 2018 at 6 PM – 8 PM

Lee Street Listening Room by Adam DeGraff, 232 North Lee Street, Lewisburg, West Virginia 24901

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Join Doug Van Gundy and Annie Stroud. 2018 Master Artist and Apprentices as part of the West Virginia Folklife Program, as they explore the old-time fiddling traditions of Eastern WV.

Doug Van Gundy of Elkins leads an apprenticeship on old-time fiddling with apprentice Annie Stroud of Charleston. Van Gundy, an eighth-generation West Virginian, apprenticed with fiddler Mose Coffman through the 1993 Augusta Heritage Apprenticeship Program and plays with his group Born Old. Stroud is a Greenbrier County native and fiddle player for the Allegheny Hellbenders.

This Folklife Apprenticeship is supported by the West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council, and the National Endownment for the Arts. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations do not necessarily represent those of the West Virginia Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Arts.