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National Folk Festival Brings Old American Songs to Chicago
Victorian soldiering to skyscraper city contrast marked by plans for the National Folk festival at Orchestra Hall Chicago May 22 to 28. Miss Sarah Knott's non profit effort gathers railwaymen, lumberjacks, Acadian bands, Mexican groups, Kiowa dancers and many more from across the states to present regional folk songs dances and plays preserving authentic American culture.
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Orchestra Hall
Chicago
Mason and Dixon Line
Sarah Gertrude Knott
University of North Carolina
Dramatic League of
Homer P. Rainey
American Youth Commission
Mary Austin
Walter Prichard Eaton
Yale School of the Drama
Constance Rourke
George Lyman Kittredge
Harvard University
Walter Hough
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Louise Pound
Frances Densmore
St. Louis
Chattanooga
Tenn
Dallas
Texas
Louisiana
Lousiana State University
Lafayette
St. Martinsville
Evangeline
Michigan
Grand Rapids
E. C. Beck
Northern State Teachers College
Mt. Pleasant
H.s.babcock
Alma
Missouri
Arkansas
May Kennedy McCord
Springfield
Mabel Mueller
Molla
Kansas City
New Mexico
Southwest
Arthur L. Campa
Albuquerque
A. Lucero ‘White
Santa Fe
New
Jack Davie
Merrie Golden Tree
North
Countrie
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
George Korson
Bucknell University
Avondale
Johnny Mitchell
Tennessee
London Bridge
Lou
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Fred J. Colby
Nashville
Wisconsin
Ethel Rockwell
Bureau of Dramatics
State University
Paul Bunyan
Badger
Iowa
Kentucky
Georgia
Vermont
Maine
New England
Kansas
Alabama
Mississippi
Ohio
Mary Roberts Crowley
Hamilton County
William E. Hutson
Society For Preservation of Spirituals
Charleston
Ss. C