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CYBERGRASS - Ralph Stanley Museum Seeks Donation of Archive Items

The Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center is seeking donations of music and memorabilia for their archives.

The Center opened in October of 2004 and is a state-of-the-art facility honoring bluegrass and mountain music legend Dr. Ralph Stanley.

We've been asked to run this notice and do so with pleasure ...

The resource center of the Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center in Clintwood, Virginia seeks your help in adding to their archives. ...

Your assistance is requested in the donation of Stanley-related memorabilia such as old record albums, 45 and 78 RPM recordings, photos, songbooks, folios, newspaper and magazine articles, recordings of live concerts and radio shows, video tapes of television appearances, persoanl [sic] appearances, and related items for the archives of the ... Center.

Please send items to the museum at the following address:

Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center
P.O. Box 945
249 Clintwood Main Street
Clintwood, VA 24228

TAGS: Memorabilia, Museums, Ralph Stanley

Bluegrass Music Trail Project

Bluegrass Music Trail Project (BMTP) was established to help impoverished youth receive free Appalachian music lessons and instruments. BMTP is operating under the Urban Appalachian Council who is acting as fiscal agent for the project.

To kick off the fundraising efforts for the project, BMTP's Project Leaders, Amos Hopkins and Katy Graves, will hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail. Katy and Amos are raising funds and awareness through a "Hike-A-Thon" by embarking on a 6 month expedition as they hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.

The trail extends through the Appalachian Mountain Range along the eastern coast of North America. It begins in Georgia, and continues all the way up to northern Maine. The trail is 2,175 miles long and takes about 6 months to complete. Hopkins and Graves will begin their expedition in mid May and return in mid November.

You can track their expedition on the trail blog for trail updates and progress on the scholarship fund.

TAGS: Americana , Appalachia, Causes, Fund raising, Youth

HT: The Bluegrass Blog

Topical TAGS: Americana , Bluegrass, Music, Roots