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New Hampshire Folk Festival Tapes, 1978-1986

Tapes, 1978-1986

MC 202

9 boxes (4.5 cu.ft.)

About the New Hampshire Folk Festivals:

The resurrected New Hampshire Folk Festival – it had previously been held from 1946-1964 – was held at Pat’s Peak in Henniker on August 15, 1978 and for the next five years. It then moved to Concord before ceasing in 1986.

About the New Hampshire Folk Festival Tapes:

3/4″ tapes of festivals from 1978-1980 and 1983-1986.

Box Listing

  1. 1978
  2. 1979
  3. 1980
  4. 1983
  5. 1984
  6. 1985
  7. 1986

I. 1978

BOX 1
August 15, 1978
Tape 1: Omer Marcoux/Chris Morgan.
Tape 2: Chris Morgan/The Smith Family
Tape 3: Cora Bardwell/Cormac McCarthy.
Tape 4: Rodney and Randy Miller.
Tape 5: Allan Block & Nancy McDowell; Sara Grey & Joan Sprung.
Tape 6: Sara Grey & Joan Sprung/Purly Gates.
Tape 7: Purly Gates/Bill Morrissey/Bill Staines.
Tape 8: Bethlehem Sheiks.
Tape 9: John Wardwell.

II. 1979

BOX 2
July 1979
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
1979
Tape 11: Banzai Band
Tape 12: Fleet Street Shuffle
1980
Tape 1: Omer Marcoux
Tape 2: Bob McQuillen & April Limber
Tape 3: Karen Kayen
Tape 4: Cormac McCarthy
Tape 5: Sharon Pyne & Kevin McElroy
Tape 6: Last Chance String Band
Tape 7: Second Hand Rose
Tape 8: Taylor Whiteside
Tape 9: Purly Gates
Tape 10: Bill Morrissey
Tape 11: Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass Band
Tape 12: John Wardwell Blues Band

IV. 1983

BOX 4
1983
Tape 1: Pam Smith
Tape 2: Click Horning/Ed Gerhard
Tape 3: John Wardwell Blues Band
Tape 4: Bill Morrissey
Tape 5: New England Tradition
Tape 6: Cormac MacCarthy
Tape 7: Speed The Plough/Ed Gerhard
Tape 8: Bill Staines
Tape 9: Bill Staines
Tape 10: Mink Hill Band
Tape 11: Mitch Shuldman
Tape 12: [Allan Block]
Tape 13: Blackwater String Band

BOX 5
1984
Tape 1: Poor Howard
Tape 2: Purly Gates
Tape 3: Pam Smith
Tape 4: Lincoln Mountain Bluegrass
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
Tape 12: Alouette Iselin
Tape 13: Karen Kayen
Tape 14: Click Horning

(Dudley Laufman, harmonica; Cal Howard, piano and bass; Vince O’Donnell, fiddle; Taylor Whitesides, 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) 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

0.05: Medley #1 4:15: Medley #2 – Reels 9:35: Julia Grover 12:55: Medley 18:50: Farewell My Friends 25:35: All The Hay Was In 31:40: W- — Away (?) 35:50: Medley

BOX 5
1985
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
Tape 7: Solomon’s Seal
Tape 8: Harvey Reid
Tape 9: Susie Burke
Tape 10: Gary Hull
Tape 11: T.J. Wheeler

BOX 6
1986
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
1983
Tape 1
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:
Farther Down the Line
Wildflower?
The Mountain’s Pride
Mad Dog Song
Ageless Woodland Wonder
Railroad, Railroad
Rainmaker

Tape #2:

Ed Gerhard Crow Medley Nightbirds Untitled Medley Untitled

Tape #3: 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 Small Town It’s Dangerous Out There Barstow Morrissey Falls In Room ? Petticoat Junction Texas Blues Swimming (?) Rosie

Tape #5: New England Tradition Medley of 4 reels Waltzes by Sarah Bauhan or Sara Bower (?) Three Jigs by Ros M Three Scottish Waltzes Reel Medley

Tape #6: 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 ? (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 #8: Bill Staines Tape #9: Bill Staines Tape #10: 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 Schuldman Take a —? Chance Take A Woman Like You Something Special ? ? ? Tango of Dreams [Tape #12: Allan Block] Tape #13: 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

1978
Tape 1
Omer Marcoux:
Montaigne Reel
Reel du Campaigne
Logger Breakdown
Reel Beatrice
Listen to the Mockingbird
Blue Waltz
Longchamp from Canada
Ruen (?) Reel
Canadian Jig
Momanize (? – German tune)
Aux Grande Café
Chris Morgan:
The Curse of Drink
Morgan Magan
O’Carolan’s Concerto
Blackwaterside
Primrose Polka
Scottish Strathspey

Tape 2
Chris Morgan:
As the Sun Shone Brightly
The Court of King Caractacus
William Tell Overture
The Hartlepool Monkey
The Smith Family:
Leftover Luvin
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Doing the New Lowdown
Lazybones
I Love You
Bill Morrissey:
Newmarket
Marie Osmond
The Packard Co.
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 (Yodelling Song)
Tape 8
Bethlehem Sheiks:
?
Sales Tax Zoning
Just One Way to the Pearly Gates
?
Ballbut Gel 99 (Woman You Love) (?)
?
?
Lakes of Pontchartrain
Nada
Tape 9
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

Additional Tapes:

“1978 N.H. Folk Festival”
NH Bluegrass Festival, Henniker, Aug 13, 1978
Songs of N H, 2/25/79

II. Posters

1978-1986

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