John Powell, Annabel Buchanan, John Blakemore

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Title

John Powell, Annabel Buchanan, John Blakemore

Subject

White Top Folk Festival 1931-1939

Description

Photograph of the three individuals responsible for programming and promotion of the White Top Folk Festival, which took place in the 1930s in Grayson County, Virginia on property owned by John Blakemore. Annabel Morris Buchanan, who was credited as the founder and co-director of the festival, was "a talented composer and prodigious collector of all kinds of folk music." [Smith, p. 188]
John Powell was a celebrated Virginia composer who incorporated folk idioms into his compositions.

Creator

Not known

Source

Blakemore estate

Publisher

Washington County Public Library

Date

not dated

Contributor

David Winship

Rights

Washington County Public Library

Format

Still image

Type

Photograph