Tapes, 1978-1986
MC 202
9 half Hollinger boxes (4.5 cu.ft.)
About the New Hampshire Folk Festivals:
The first resurrected New Hampshire Folk Festival – an event with that name had previously been held from 1946-1964 – was held at Pat’s Peak Ski Area in Henniker on August 15, 1976. It emerged from the Saturday night coffee houses held at the Open Kitchen, a natural foods restaurant in Concord, which provided a place for area musicians to play. Folks at the Open Kitchen felt it was time that serious consideration be given to musicians in New Hampshire instead of talent from Boston or New York always being showcased. The first festival realized this idea and also served as a fundraiser for the Open Kitchen, which let its space be used for an assortment of community activities, functioning as much as a community center as a restaurant.
The Folk Festival continued on an annual basis at Pat’s Peak until 1980. It then took a hiatus for a couple of years before returning in 1983 in Concord and finally ceasing in 1986.
About the New Hampshire Folk Festival Tapes:
The collection consist of 80 3/4″ tapes of festival performances made during the festivals of 1978-1980 and 1983-1986. They were recorded and logged by John Groefrer, who donated them to the University of New Hampshire. Some of the logs are incomplete and inaccurate. Any assistance in providing correct information where there are mistakes or gaps is gratefully received.
Series Listing
- 3/4″ videotapes of festivals
- 3rd Annual New Hampshire Folk Festival 1978
- 4th Annual New Hampshire Folk Festival 1979
- 5th Annual New Hampshire Folk Festival 1980
- 6th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1983
- 7th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1984
- 8th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1985
- 9th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1986
- Programs, posters, flyers
- Memorabilia
I. 3/4″ Videotapes
A. 3rd Annual New Hampshire Folk Festival 1978
(held August 13 at Pat’s Peak Ski Area, Henniker, NH. Includes log)
BOX 1
| Tape 1: Omer Marcoux/Chris Morgan |
| Omer Marcoux: Montaigne Reel; Reel de Campagne; Logger Breakdown; Reel Beatrice; Listen to the Mockingbird; Blue Waltz; Longchamp from Canada; Ruen (?) Reel; Canadian Jig; Momanize (? РGerman tune); Au Grande Caf̩ |
| Chris Morgan: The Curse of Drink; Morgan Magan; O’Carolan’s Concerto; Blackwaterside; Primrose Polka; Scottish Strathspey |
| Tape 2: Chris Morgan/The Smith Family |
| Chris Morgan: Scottish strathspey (continued from previous tape); As the Sun Shone Brightly; The Court of King Caractacus; William Tell Overture; The Hartlepool Monkey |
| The Smith Family: Leftover Lovin’; Seven Bridges Road; My Style; Strollerman Blues; Rock, Salt & Nails; Country Girl With Stars in My Eyes; Lovesick Blues; Angel From My Montgomery; Lighter Shade of Blue; Reason To Believe; Sweet Thing |
| Tape 3: Cora Bardwell/Cormac McCarthy |
| Cora Bardwell: John Hardhat |
| Cormac McCarthy: Pink Flamingo; Sleazy Bar; Make the Man; The Blue Mountains; Broke Again; Sometimes I Think I’m Home Again; Long Love Can’t You Save Me? |
| Tape 4: Rodney and Randy Miller |
| Rodney and Randy Miller: Schankopa Reel; Canadian Reel (White Poach); Broken Sword; Dancin’ Bear; Old Time Quadrille [Bob McQuillen(?) tunes]; Ragmey (?) O’er the Dark; King’s Favorite; G Minor Reel; Cultivator’s Reel; Miss Ball; Earl of Mansfield; La Belle Catherine; Southern Polkas; Chickadee Polka; McPherson’s Lament; Reels |
| Tape 5: Allan Block & Nancy McDowell/Sara Grey & Joan Sprung |
| Allan Block & Nancy McDowell: Bonaparte’s Retreat; Red Mountain Wine; Barlow Knife; The Patteroller (?) Song; The Florida Blues; Carroll County Blues; Foreign Lander (?); Indian Nation; I Can’t Feel At Home In This World Any More; Belehonte’s (?) Hornpipe; Black Mountain Rag |
| Sara Grey & Joan Sprung: Dance Botany (?); ?; Rattle on the Stovepipe; Sweet Sunny South |
| Tape 6: Sara Grey & Joan Sprung/Purly Gates |
| Sara Grey & Joan Sprung: Rich Farmer; Spring Always Comes Again; Fair Maid Stranded; Mull of Kintyre |
| Purly Gates: Drunk on a Bottle of Booze; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Jean Harlow; Persian Rug; Bill Morgan and His Gals; Sunny Side of the Street; Shimmy Like My Sister Kate; Feeling Good |
| Tape 7: Purly Gates/Bill Morrissey/Bill Staines |
| Purly Gates: Doing the New Lowdown; Lazybones; I Love You |
| Bill Morrissey: Newmarket; Marie Osmond; The Packard Company |
| Bill Staines: One Long Whistle; Old Jack; The Blackfly Song; Rooty Toot Toot For the Moon; Annie Drew; Crazy Leslie; Zane Grey; Haulin’ in the Wood; Brother Earl (Yodeling Song) |
| Tape 8: Bethlehem Sheiks |
| Bethlehem Sheiks: ?; Sales Tax Zoning; Just One Way to the Pearly Gates; ?; Ballbust Gel 99 (Woman You Love) (?); ?; Fiddling; Lakes of ? (Irish Ballad); NADA |
| Tape 9: John Wardwell |
| John Wardwell: Sweet Chicago; I Love the Life I Live; I Gotta Find My Baby; I Got the Blues; It’s Gonna Be Your Funeral; I Love My Girl the Same; You Said You Love Me Now |
B. 4th Annual New Hampshire Folk Festival 1978
(held August 12 at Pat’s Peak Ski Area, Henniker, NH. Includes log)
BOX 2
| Tape 1: Bob McCarthy Revival |
| Tape 2: Purly Gates Band |
| Tape 3: Taylor Whiteside & Sammie Haynes |
| Tape 4: Harvey Tolman & Jason Little |
| Tape 5: Kathy Lowe |
| Tape 6: John Perrault |
| Tape 7: April Limber & Bob McQuillen |
| Tape 8: Gary Robinson |
| Tape 9: Silver Dollar String Band |
| Tape 10: Bill Staines |
BOX 3
| Tape 11: Banzai Band |
| Tape 12: Fleet Street Shuffle |
C. 5th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1980
(held August 10 at Pat’s Peak Ski Area, Henniker, NH)
| Tape 1: Omer Marcoux |
| Omer Marcoux: Au Grande Café; Ruin Reel; Star Waltz; Labrador Reel; Maman ?; French Reel; Reel Beatrice; Linda Reel |
| Tape 2: Bob McQuillen & April Limber |
| Bob McQuillen & April Limber:
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| Tape 3: Karen Kayen |
| Karen Kayen: Few Days; Johnson Boys; Lord Franklin; Groundhog Song; Woodsmoke and Wine; You Can’t Take Out ?; Blue Blaze Blind Drunk; Don’t You Waste My Time; Mother Earth |
| Tape 4: Cormac McCarthy |
| Cormac McCarthy: Madness in the Family; Lady’s Like Automatic; A Drift in the Mountain; Pink Flamingo; Uncle Mackie on the Beach; Blue Mountain; Sleazy Beer; Bad Company |
| Tape 5: Sharon Pyne & Kevin McElroy |
| Sharon Pyne & Kevin McElroy: Planxty Charles O’Connor; Lakes of Pontchartrain; Reel; Piper’s Chair Medley; Flute & bodhran; Hornpipes; Scottish air; Reels; Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore |
| Tape 6: Last Chance String Band |
| Last Chance String Band:
Chicken Reel; Milwaukee Blues; Leading The Right Life Now; Sugar Hill; Old Account Was Settled; Sail Away Ladies; Liza Jane; Rocky Pallet; Saro Jane; Dickson County Blues; Down the Road; Water Bound; John Henry; Little More Time |
| Tape 7: Second Hand Rose |
| Second Hand Rose: Ginseng Soldier; Road To ?; ?; Sweet and Slow; Miss Molly; Choo Choo Boogie; ?; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Shipwrecked Man; Luxury Liner; One Way Trip |
| Tape 8: Taylor Whiteside |
| Taylor Whiteside: Desert Pete;
Dark Highway; The Bluebird; Hard Luck Blues; You Didn’t Have To Worry; The Hoodoo Men; Virtuoso-so-so; Way Out There; Whippoorwill |
| Tape 9: Purly Gates |
| Purly Gates: Awful Lot of Coffee; Cheek to Cheek; Coasting Along; Oh Me Oh My; I Doodle Dare You; Staten Island; Soldier’s Joy; Tic a Tock O Tee; Song For All You Vipers; You Get What You Pay For |
| Tape 10: Bill Morrissey |
| Bill Morrissey: Night Shift; Sweaty Woman; She Moves Through The Fair; Snow Outside The Mill; Stupid People; He Drinks Alone; I Want To Go To Art School;
Lara Song; Rollin’ in My Sweet Babushka’s Arms; Small Town on the River |
| Tape 11: Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass Band |
| Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass: First Song; Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright; Don’t Know My Next Picture ?; With A Small Exception; Riding On The L & M; Rawhide; Doin’ My Time; Old Tennessee; The Bluebird is Singing; Wintery Feeling; Pick Away; Sitting On Top of the World; These Times |
| Tape 12: John Wardwell Blues Band |
| John Wardwell Band: First Song; Be Satisfied; All By Myself; Shake Rattle ‘;n ‘Roll; ?; Sweet Old Chicago; Memphis Blues; ?; Mojo Working |
D. 6th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1983
(held in Concord, NH. Includes log)
BOX 4
| Tape 1: Pam Smith |
| Pam Smith: Who’s Seducing Who?; Goin’ to Frisco; Knock on Wood; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Nothing Lasts Forever; To Gramps; Fever; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Nobody Loves You When You’re Down and Out |
| Tape 2: Click Horning/Ed Gerhard |
| Click Horning: Farther Down the Line; Wildflower?; The Mountain’s Pride; Mad Dog Song; Ageless Woodland Wonder; Railroad, Railroad; Rainmaker |
| Ed Gerhard:Crow; Medley; Nightbirds; Untitled; Medley; Untitled |
| Tape 3: John Wardwell Blues Band |
| John Wardwell Blues Band: Be Satisfied; Chicago; All By Myself; It Wasn’t Right; Check Out On My Baby; Wardwell Boogie |
| Tape 4: Bill Morrissey |
| Bill Morrissey: Small Town on the River; It’s Dangerous Out There; Barstow; Morrissey Falls In Love At Fisrt Sight; ?; Petticoat Junction; Texas Blues; Swimming (?); Rosie |
| Tape 5: New England Tradition |
| New England Tradition: Medley of 4 reels; Waltzes by Sarah Bauhan; Three Jigs by Ros M; Three Scottish Waltzes; Medley of reels |
| Tape 6: Cormac MacCarthy |
| Cormac McCarthy: Madness in the Family; Another Year; French Western Song; Wop it (?); Friend of the Family; We’re Dumb and We Drink; Blue Mountains; Make It A New Start; A Drift in the Mountain; Pink Flamingo |
| Tape 7: Speed The Plough/Ed Gerhard |
| Speed the Plough: ? (fiddle tunes); The Glendale Train; White Freightliner Blues (Townes Van Zandt); Temperance Reel and 3 others; We Shall Rise; Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette; Bill Cheetham; Fish and Whistle (John Prine); What Goes On (Lennon-McCartney); Whisky |
| Ed Gerhard: The Little Irishman; Going Home/Long John |
| Tape 10: Mink Hill Band |
| Mink Hill Band: Good Morning Country Rain; Hickory Wind; El Comencharo; Goodbye Marie; My Blue Tears; Instrumental; Johnson Boys; Bye Bye Love |
| Tape 11: Mitch Shuldman |
| Mitch Schuldman: Take a —? Chance; Take A Woman Like You; Something Special; ?; ?; ?; Tango of Dreams |
| Tape 13: Blackwater String Band |
| Blackwater String Band: Katie Donahue; I Want A Man; One For the Morning Glory; Instrumental; Sullivan’s John; Do You Want Your Old Lovers; Men Behind the Wire; Going Back Where I Come From; Pop There Goes Boston; Dance tunes; Spiritual; Beale Street Blues |
BOX 5
E. 7th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1984
(held in Concord, NH)
| Tape 1: Poor Howard |
| Poor Howard: Omaha; Jack’s Red Cheetah; St. Paul Woman; Chicken Cordon Blues; Elaine —?; St. Louis —; Draft Dodger Song; Charles Street Rag; John Dillinger; Bull Frog Blues; New Grape |
| Tape 2: Purly Gates |
| Purly Gates: Things Are Going MY Way; Fiddle Tune; Zippedy Doo Dah; Roses and Daffodils; Fiddle Medley; You Come Out of the Closet; Move Over To The Other Side; Barbed Wire; Fiddle Medley; Flea and Fly; Coffee; Don’t You Go Reaching |
| Tape 3: Pam Smith |
| Pam Smith: Honeysuckle Rose; God Bless The Child; Love Slips Away; Hobo; Gramps; Lover Man, Where Can You Be?; Rock, Salt and Nails; Strollerman Blues; Leo Kottke Song; Gold Old wagon |
| Tape 4: Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass |
| Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass: Opening Tune; Just Think I’ll Stay Around; Sweet Little Miss Blue Eye; Some Old Day; Instrumental; On and On; Darlene, Think Of What You Do; Live and Let Live; Life of a Railroad Man; Doin’ My Time; Listenin’ To The Rain; Mountain Railroad; Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright); Goodnight – |
| Tape 5: Workshop #1 |
| Tape 6: Workshop #2 |
| Tape 7: Workshop #3 |
| Tape 8: Workshop #4 |
| Tape 9: Workshop #5 |
| Tape 10: R.P. Hale, Sylvia Miskoe & Justine Paul |
| Tape 11: Paul Mangione/Capt. Fiddle |
| Paul Mangione: Still House; Bonnie James Campbell; The Old Hungry H— House; As Time Draws Near; Going Across The Mountain; Wild Bill Jones; Cooko Cooko; Morning Blues |
| Capt. Fiddle: Blues Come Around; Fiddle Medley; Been All Over This World; Medley; Over The Hill |
| Tape 12: Alouette Iselin |
| Alouette Iselin: Healing Water; A Magic Song; Your Daughters, Your Sons; Alouette’s Waltz; The Haying Song; Midnight on the Water; The Tinkerman’s Daughters; The Friend You’ve Been |
| Tape 13: Karen Kayen |
| Karen Kayen: Two Hands; Jubilee; Saw You My magic; Old Man Tenney; Handgun Song; Christie Warden (?); The Road Not Taken; A Nice Place; Working Girl Blues; Margaret’s Quilt |
| Tape 14: Click Horning |
| Click Horning: Copper Kettle; Good Man Blues; Venice is Sinking; Mad Dog; Guitar Store Dream; It Could Happen To You |
BOX 5
E. 8th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1985
(held in Concord, NH)
| Tape 1: John Perrault |
| Tape 2: Alouette Iselin |
| Tape 3: Odds Bodkin |
| Tape 4: Mark Hopkins & Jon Harley (?) |
| Tape 5: Joe Pomerleau |
| Tape 6: Canterbury Orchestra(Dudley Laufman, harmonica; Cal Howard, piano and bass; Vince O’Donnell, fiddle; Taylor Whiteside, fiddle; Allan Block, fiddle; Deanna Stiles, flute and piccolo; Lydia Reeves, fiddle; Nicholas S. Howe, fiddle; Dave Fuller, accordion; Jerry Weene, banjo & fiddle; Randy Miller, accordion; Sylvia Miskoe, accordion; Dick Nevell, electric guitar; Jack Sloanaker, bass and piano): |
| Canterbury Orchestra: Mary Desrosiers intro; Whiskey Before Breakfast/Money Musk; Mutual Love, aka The Flight; Glenn Towle; Gentle Maiden; Le Grandeuse;
Coleraine Jig; Yellow-haired Laddie; Prince William; Scotty O’Neal |
| Tape 7: Solomon’s Seal |
| Solomon’s Seal: Medley #1; Medley #2 – Reels; Julia Grover; Medley; Farewell My Friends; All The Hay Was In; W- — Away (?); Medley |
| Tape 8: Harvey Reid |
| Tape 9: Susie Burke |
| Tape 10: Gary Hull |
BOX 6
9th New Hampshire Folk Festival 1986
(held September 21, Concord, NH)
| Tape 1: Odds Bodkin |
| Tape 2: Crossbow |
| Tape 3: Susie Burke |
| Tape 4: Taylor Whiteside |
| Tape 5: Joe Pomerleau, Milt Appleby and friends |
| Tape 6: Allan Block |
| Tape 7: Cosy Sheridan and Susie Burke |
| Tape 8: Cormac McCarthy |
| Tape 9: Boogaloo Swamis |
| Boogaloo Swamis: Bosco Stomp; Cajun Two Step; Jole Blon; Sugar Bee; How Long; Diggi Diggi Lo; Port Arthur Waltz; Hound Dog Baby; Hot Tamale Baby; Built for Comfort; I Can’t Stop It; Back Door; Boogaloo Boogie; ‘Tit Fille; Zydeco Boogaloo |
| Additional Tapes:
“1978 N.H. Folk Festival”
NH Bluegrass Festival, Henniker, Aug 13, 1978
Songs of N H, 2/25/79 |
II. Programs and Posters
| Programs, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1983-1986 |
| Posters, 1976-1980, 1984 and 1985 |
| Two volunteer buttons, 1986 |
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February 28th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Dear Archives: This is what you have listed for the Last Chance String Band NH Folk Festival tape: Chicken Reel; Milwaukee Blues; Leading The Right Life Now; Sugar Hill; Old Account Was Settled; Sail Away Ladies; Little Lizzie; Rocky Balboa; Saro Jane; Carroll County Blues; ?; Down the Road; Water Bound; John Henry; Little More Time
Here are corrections: Little Lizzie should be “Liza Jane.” Rocky Balboa should be “Rocky Pallet.” Carroll County Blues should be “Dickson County Blues.”
sincerely yours,
Ryan Thomson – fiddler for Last Chance String Band 4 Elm Court Newmarket, NH 03857 603-659-2658 http://www.captainfiddle.com
August 2nd, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Belated thanks, Ryan, for your corrections to the set list for the Last Chance String Band’s performance. I made the changes some time ago, but neglected to thank you for the information. Roland Goodbody, Manuscripts Curator
February 5th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for listing the info about Hampshire Folk Festival Tapes. I have been searching these for my research.
March 11th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
This is great, Is there anywhere I can watch the videos of the festival online?
March 12th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
The 3/4″ tapes have not been transferred to digital format, except for two or three of them. These were done on request and the transfer paid for by the interested party. But at this point there is no plan to make them available online. There are copyright issues on some of the material and we’d have to get the permission of the performers as well.