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2018 Master Artist & Apprentice Feature: John Morris & Jen Iskow, Old-Time Fiddling and Stories of Clay County

John D. Morris of Ivydale is leading an apprenticeship on old-time fiddling, focusing on the traditions of Clay County, with Jen Iskow of Thomas. The first in a series featuring our five 2018 Folklife Apprentice Pairs.

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Doug Van Gundy & Annie Stroud play Lee Hammons’ “Greasy String” at our Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase at @wvhumanities this evening. The pair are wrapping up a year-long apprenticeship in the old-time fiddle tradition of the Greenbrier Valley. 🎻 The #WestVirginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program is supported in part by @neaarts.

“Doris was able to quantify for me how we, as a people, created an art form just doing something that we naturally do." -Xavier Oglesby The 3rd in a 5-part series on our 2018 #WestVirginia Folklife master-apprentice pairs features master blues and black gospel musician @fieldsdoris aka Lady D & apprentice Xavier Oglesby, both of Beckley. Our #Folklife Apprenticeship Program is supported in part by an Art Works grant from @neaarts. Read the full post and more about the program on our blog (link in profile). #wvfolklife #blues #gospel #wv #wvfolklifeapprenticeships

Join us this Wednesday from 5:30-7:30pm for our first #WVFolklife Apprenticeship Showcase at @wvhumanities‘ historic MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston. The showcase will feature a performance by master old-time fiddler @wvfiddler with apprentice fiddler @stroud_anne, a short documentary screening and tasting by master salt rising bread bakers @jenny.bardwell and @srbwva with apprentice baker @awwsomedawson, a Q&A, and light refreshments. The event is free & open to the public, but due to our limited capacity, an RSVP (via www.wvfolklife.org) is requested. 🍞🎻----🎻🍞 The West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program, supported in part by @neaarts, offers a stipend to #WestVirginia master traditional artists or tradition bearers working with qualified apprentices on a year-long in-depth apprenticeship in their cultural expression or traditional art form. These apprenticeships aim to facilitate the transmission of techniques and artistry of the forms, as well as their histories and traditions. 2018 is the first year of the biennial Folklife Apprenticeship Program. Poster designed by Dog and Pony Press/ @radford_diane

Our halls are decked for the season once again! We appreciate your support throughout the year and hope you'll join us tomorrow evening from 4-6pm for light refreshments by the fire during our annual @wvhumanities Holiday Open House at 1310 Kanawha Blvd. E in Charleston. #charlestonwv #cwv

John Morris & Jen Iskow playing the Kanawha County (Campbells Creek) tune Elzic's Farewell at the Big Otter Community Center this evening. The duo performed this local show as part of their Folklife Apprenticeship focusing on the old-time fiddle tradition of Clay County. 🎻 #wvfolklife #wvfolklifeapprenticeships #oldtime #fiddle #westvirginia

“Somebody once said that old-time music is about the birds that sang, the water that flows. It’s about how dogs bark at night. It’s about all the things — the owls that hoot, cows that ball. It’s about everything around you that you hear. It’s about the joy that you have in life, it’s about the sorrow. It’s about all your life experiences. It all comes out in your music, and your music will be individual.” -Master Clay County fiddler John Morris Thank you to the @wvgazettemail & @realjennifergardner for profiling our #WestVirginia Folklife Program apprenticeship in old-time fiddle and stories of Clay County with John Morris of Ivydale & Jen Iskow of Thomas. This is the 3rd in a series on our #Folklife Apprenticeship Program, funded in part by @neaarts. 📷: @chudsonphoto #wvfolklife#wvfolklifeapprenticeships #wv #oldtime #oldtimefiddle #fiddle

Want to support the work we do to document, preserve, support, and present #WestVirginia's vibrant cultural heritage and living traditions? Donate to the West Virginia Humanities Council (@wvhumanities) this #GivingTuesday. Visit wvhumanities.org/donate/giving-opportunities (link in profile) for the many ways to give. #wv #wvfolklife

Thoney Pietro with his daughters Virginia and Josephine in Morgantown on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1908. 📷: via @wvulibraries

"We often say that salt rising bread is food for the body as well as for the soul. In fact, almost everyone who has eaten salt rising bread has a story to tell about it. These stories loom large in the hearts of those who love the bread. They are, indeed, another reason why the salt rising bread tradition lives on in our Appalachian homes and why it is so important and so special to preserve this bread and the stories that help keep this tradition alive." -Master salt rising bread baker Susan Brown The 2nd in a 5 part series on our 2018 #wvfolklife master-apprentice pairs features master salt rising bread bakers Susan Brown & Jenny Bardwell of Mount Morris, PA and apprentice baker Amy Dawson of Lost Creek, WV. The apprenticeship program grants are administered by @wvfolklife at @wvhumanities and are supported in part by an Art Works grant from @neaarts. Read the full post and more about the program on our blog (link in profile). #saltrisingbread #wvfolklifeapprenticeships #foodways #folklife #folklore

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