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Tom McCarroll & Tammie
McCarroll-Burroughs
James T.
“Tom” McCarroll, born in 1928, worked in city maintenance in Lenoir City
for over 30 years, all the while playing fiddle, guitar, and banjo. His daughter Tammie, the only one of
Fiddlin' Jim McCarroll's 13 grandchildren to take up music, was making
45 rpm
records in junior high school, recording Rockabilly songs and some of
her own compositions, as well as playing with her grandfather’s band
throughout his life, later performing with her father in the “Bonnie
Lou and
Buster” show on WJHL-TV in Sevierville, and at RV rallies and parks
from
Florida to Ohio. In recent years they've been frequent guests at
the Laurel Theater and on WDVX, performed at the Festival
of American Fiddle Tunes in July 2004, and released a CD Generations.
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 Roy
Harper
A retired brakeman
from Manchester, Tennessee,
Roy Harper has been performing old-time country music for more than
fifty
years. Roy has devoted his life to
continuing the
traditions of the style of country music he grew up listening to. Much of the inspiration for his songs comes
from the many years he spent working on the railroad.
Compared by his fans to Jimmy Rogers, Roy has developed quite a
following among people who find this style of music preferable to
modern
“country” music. “County music gradually
got citified, and I stayed the same.”
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 The Epworth Old Harp Singers
The Epworth Old Harp
Singers host a
community
singing from The
New Harp of Columbia, a manual of sacred songs first published in Knoxville in 1848, related to the better known Sacred
Harp singing tradition and emerging from the singing school
movement once
widespread throughout New England and
the
South. Copies of the 2001 edition will
be available for use.
This year, the Epworth Old Harp singers will host an all day Singing
School on Saturday, March 21 with workshops for beginning and advanced
singers. Details are available here:
http://www.oldharp.org/singingschoolmain.html
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Charlie Acuff
Near home Acuff has
been a mainstay of music programming at the Museum of Appalachia
and at Jubilee Community Arts events. Farther away, he’s a regular at
the
annual Breakin’ Up Winter old-time gathering, and has traveled to Washington State where he was featured at
the
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. |
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 Y'uns
Y’uns
is a goodtime acoustic band that blends jugband music with elements of
folk,
swing, country, and blues. They
boast more kazoo-playing & yodeling than any Knoxville band but will fulfill their
contract to play at least one down-in-the-coalmine dirge per set. Y'uns features Steve Horton & Stan Turner
from the Lonesome Coyotes, Danny Gammon from Music Therapy, J. Miller
from UT
Theater, & J.P. Reddick from the
mighty Mumbillies.
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Mike Bryant
 Mike
Bryant has been playing old time fiddle for close to 30 years. For
22 years he played with the award winning old time band The New Dixie
Entertainers, playing all aound the country and at fiddle conventions.
Mike has taught fiddle classes at Swannanoa and Augusta and also enjoys
teaching individuals at home in Tennessee. Over the years Mike has won
many awards for fiddling, most notably at Clifftop, West Virginia. Mike
enjoys playing old time tunes from all over the south. He also has a
good repertory of blues and rags on the fiddle.
Mike will be joined by Marcia Bryant and Morgan Simmons of the New
Dixie Entertainers and Joseph and Kasey Decosimo. Mike was
featured prominently in a recent issue of the Old Time Herald and in
the video series Songs of Appalachia
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/nov/26/songs-appalachia-love-fiddle/
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The
Pea Ridge Ramblers
 The
music of the Pea Ridge Ramblers is the traditional music of the South,
the
music performed by the classic string bands and songsters of the 1920s,
‘30s,
& ‘40s. The Ramblers are a three-piece band with fiddles,
mandolins,
guitars, banjo, and voice. Georgia
natives Todd Gladson (now of Knoxville)
and
Kenneth Johnson have performed brother-duet fashion for over eight
years, and
Adrian Powell of Virginia
adds his ability to saw the fiddle. All three also work with Matt
Kinman and
the Old Time Serenaders.
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 Jim
Turley
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Danny
Gammon
While known
chiefly as a fiddler, Danny Gammon
is equally at home playing guitar and singing with a mellow authority.
He works
at refining his musical taste and broadening his musical experience. He
enjoys
playing music with people of many tastes, and strives to be inclusive
musicians
of any level of talent. He is the
primary organizer of Music Therapy, an unlikely group of musicians who
meet
twice monthly for the pure joy of playing with other musicians |
 The
Lantana Drifters
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The
Attic Rattlers
After
they gave up counting the bands they've been in together and
separately, David Lovett,
Kathleen McGregor Williams, and Greg Horne 
decided to rattle the attic
with old-time music. They're all
regulars on the contradance
band schedule, and are among the last to leave the basement at every
Jubilee Festival. With tunes from North Carolina, West Virginia,
Kentucky, and an East Tennessee style, this old-time power trio makes the
strings sing and the feet fly.
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 The
Mumbillies
oldest
continuing band in Knoxville (by the second oldest, the HQ Band), the
Mumbillies have stuffed old time fiddle tunes and banjo riffs into
every crack
in the Laurel Theater's walls for the last quarter century
and more. |
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 Matt
Morelock, Leah Gardner & Vince Ilagan
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Informal
sessions People enjoying themselves in the basement of
the Laurel
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Roy
Harper
Y'uns
Mike
Bryant has been playing old time fiddle for close to 30 years. For
22 years he played with the award winning old time band The New Dixie
Entertainers, playing all aound the country and at fiddle conventions.
Mike has taught fiddle classes at Swannanoa and Augusta and also enjoys
teaching individuals at home in Tennessee. Over the years Mike has won
many awards for fiddling, most notably at Clifftop, West Virginia. Mike
enjoys playing old time tunes from all over the south. He also has a
good repertory of blues and rags on the fiddle.
The
music of the Pea Ridge Ramblers is the traditional music of the South,
the
music performed by the classic string bands and songsters of the 1920s,
‘30s,
& ‘40s. The Ramblers are a three-piece band with fiddles,
mandolins,
guitars, banjo, and voice. 
Jim
Turley
The
Lantana Drifters
The
Mumbillies
oldest
continuing band in Knoxville (by the second oldest, the HQ Band), the
Mumbillies have stuffed old time fiddle tunes and banjo riffs into
every crack
in the Laurel Theater's walls for the last quarter century
and more. 
Matt
Morelock, Leah Gardner & Vince Ilagan
