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Blue Grass Group To
Perform In ETSU
Festival
The Toe River Valley Boy«,
noted locally-bated Bluegrass
group, wll perform in the
Thi'd Annual East Tennessee
State University Folk Festival
in Johnson City, Tennessee,
scheduled for Fr'day and Sat
urday, October 4-5. The band
returns to the event for the
third year, having been featur
ed in the festival since its in
cep'ion in 1966.
The festival, which will be
held in Memorial Gymnasium
at ETSU, is sponsored by the,
Tennessee Folklo“e Society and
East Tennessee State Univer
sity, with funds from the Ten
nessee Arts Commission and
the ETSU Performing Arts Cou
ncil, and is di-ected a?a n this
year by Thomas G. Burton and
Ambrose N. Manning, both of
the ETSU faculty. Master of
ceremonies will be Rusty Cury.
Fr day’s program gets under
way at noon when the free crafts
exhibit will open. The afternoon
portion, from 3:00 to 5:00 p. m.,
is also without charge. The ev
en ng program on Friday will
begin at 8:00 p. m. Saturdav af
ternoon at 5:00 a rifle match
is scheduled, and the evening
program Sa'urday will also be
gin at 8:00 p. m. Doub'e even ng
program tickets (for both nights)
are available at $1.50, and a
single evening program t cket
cos’s SI.OO. Children under 12
years of age will be
cents and those under 6 will be
admitted free of charge.
Also featured n th : s year’s
fes ival will be Lester Flatt
and Ear! Scruggs, with The Fog
gy Mountain Boys, who are con
sidered top Bluegrass perform
ers, as well as televison, radio
and recording artists. They will
appear on the Fr day evening
program. Doc Watson, the fam
ous blind folk-singer-guitar vir
tuoso from Deep Gap, returns
to ETSU for the second time,
having performed at last year’s
fest val. Doc is now interna
tionally known through his rt
cordkigi and personal appear
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ances and is considered one of
the f nest musicians in the folk
field today. Also returning to
the ETSU Folk Festival, for the
third year, is Jane’te Ca-tcr of
Scott County, V rginia, the dau
ghter of famed A. P. and Sarah
Carte-, who romprsed with A.
P.’s sis’er-in-law, Maybelle, the
orig nal Carter Family, who re
co~ded about 250 songs dj-ing
the period 1927-1941. Janette
will be joined this year by her
imfher, Sarah herself, and her
bro'her, Joe Carte-. Jean Bit
ch e. famed folk singer from
Kentucky, will also retu-n to
the festival this year. Doc Wat
son and the Carier Family will
appear on the Saturday evening*
show. Jean Ritche will perform
on the Friday afternoon por
tion and also on the Sa’ur. 'v
night event. A number of other
groups and individuals wll be
on band to complement this
spectacular array of talent.
The Toe River Valley Boys
who will perform both days at /
the Festival, nclude C. A. (Gus)
Washburn of Little Switzerland, |
the founder of the original TRVB I
(circa 1928), who plays guitar, 1
harmon ca and piano; Oscar I
“Fiddlin’ Red" Wilson of Led
ge-, who plays fiddle and gui
tar; Clarence H. Greene of Pen
land, who plays five-string ban
jo, gutar and mandolin: Paul
E. Garland of Bake”sville, who
plays mandolin and guitar;
Charles Renfro of Brushy Creek,
who plays guitar; and Cecil
Burleson of Spear, who plays I
have fidd'e and guitar. The I
TRVB has just completed ano- I
ther season of square dane ng. J
at Geneva Hall in Little Swit- I
ter land, where they enjoyed I
capacity crowds each week. The
East Tennessee S’ate University
Folk Fes.ival s just one of the
dates on the group’s annual I
circuit, which takes them into
several states each year. The
Toe River Valley Boys are av
ailable for showdates. For nfor
mation call Cla-encs Greene at
7*5-9*64 or 765-4171.
Doty
Promoted
To Staff
M. E. Gambreli, P-esident of
the Daniel Boone Council, an
nounced last night at the regu
lar meeting (23 Sep 1 .) that Clay
ton Doty, Scout Executive of
the Council, has been promoted
to the Region Six Staff of the
Boy Scours of America. “Doty
is to as a Deputy Regional
Scout Executive serving the four
Southeastern s’ates. North Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida. He will make his
heme in Alianta, Georgia.
Doty has served as Scout Exe
cutive of the Daniel Boone
Council since June, 1966. Dur
ing this time the council has
grown over two thousand mem
bership and one hundred units.
The fiijaocialsupport has grown
to thk pointtiihtkthe council now
har nine men tlie four
teen counties of the counclL~~As
- tme the Daniel Boone Cou
ncil is in first place among the
thir’y-nne councils of the Re
gion Six”, Gambreli said.
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