Remembering Hazel Dickens bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Born on this day in 1925 in Montcalm, West Virginia. The SFC is honored to preserve the Hazel Dickens Collection. Photo: Hazel ca. 1940. Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library

"When racism fuels the exercise of political power to stifle inquiry and academic freedom, we should all be concerned, and libraries especially so." — UNC Librarian on Ida Bae Wells go.unc.edu/ELWJuly2021

#GreenCayWetlands

I've been looking forward to this event for a while. Hope you can join us!

Online! in '99 :)

Today is Elizabeth Cotten Day! in #carrboro Help us celebrate her music by sharing your versions of Freight Train or her other classics or share a fav EC video from youtube Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill @musicmakerblues @CarrboroTownGov PineCone #libbacottenday

Tracks Music Library is 100% curated by the local community including artists of the collection! Meet the curators of #ChapelHillTracks @Chulegre dasanahanu Kat Harding Treee City Steven Weiss @dragonfiddler chapelhillarts.org/media/meet-the…

Triangle-based musicians! We are looking for the next group of artists to join the Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture Tracks Music Library collection! It is a great way to be heard! Apply: tracksmusiclibrary.org/submit

Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton, Merle Watson and Blackie. September 1960. Deep Gap. NC. Photograph by Eugene Earle. John Edwards Memorial Collection. Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library

March 11, 1969: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split up. Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library holdings are a rich resource for the study of bluegrass with over 230 recordings, videos, and archival collections relating to Lester and Earl together (and alone) #gotbluegrass

Happy birthday Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez! Born March 11, 1939 in San Antonio, Texas. Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library Research? See also: catalog.lib.unc.edu/?q=%22Jim%C3%A…

Happy birthday James Taylor! Born in Boston, raised in Chapel Hill, NC. Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library has materials across its collections relating to James & his amazing family, including the Taylor Family Papers finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04873/ James Taylor #carolinaonmymind

On this day in 2003: The backlash against The Dixie Chicks (now known as The Chicks) begins when the British newspaper The Guardian publishes its review of a Dixie Chicks concert at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. Photo: Getty Images Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library

Remembering Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) the legendary Lightnin’ Hopkins. For related recordings, video, books and scores see: catalog.lib.unc.edu/?q=%22Hopkins%… Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library Smithsonian Folkways #BluesMusic #research

3/16/1951 Hank Williams records Hey, Good Lookin', I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You), Howlin' At The Moon & My Heart Would Know #Nashville's Castle Recording Studio. John Edwards Memorial Collection (#20001) Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library #countrymusic

Happy birthday to gospel, country & pop singer Betty Johnson of the Johnson Family Singers. For research see: Betty Johnson Collection finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20316/ and the Johnson Family Singers Collection finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20323/ #GospelMusic #countrymusic Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library

Remembering Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) the Unforgettable Nat King Cole. Photo: King Cole and Oscar Moore, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946 (Photo: William P. Gottlieb). Library resources: catalog.lib.unc.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%9… Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library

Excited to share Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill new research guide to musician Ola Belle Reed by Tatiana Hargreaves @dragonfiddler blogs.lib.unc.edu/sfc/2022/03/24… Photo: Hazel Waltman and Ola Belle Reed. From the Mike Seeger Collection (#20009) Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library

Very excited to share this news and honored to help preserve and provide access to Dawg's work.

We're thrilled to share our new Southern Folklife Collection UNC Chapel Hill research guide to musician and songwriter ELIZABETH COTTEN researched and written by @dragonfiddler. Many thanks to Bradshaw Lentz for his help. Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill UNC Library blogs.lib.unc.edu/sfc/2022/05/05… #elizabethcotten