Lee Triplett on fiddle and Dana Perkins on guitar, performing at the Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival. Photograph by Gerry Milnes, summer 1971, Ivydale, WV. archive reference: GM S1228. Project description: The Milnes Collection contains audio-visual recordings made and collected by the Augusta Heritage Center’s former Folk Arts Coordinator, Gerald Milnes. Throughout his career with Augusta, Milnes conducted field work to amass a large collection of photographs, oral histories, music, and event recordings. He recorded the bulk of the collection from the early 1970s to 2013, but the collection also includes tapes and photographs with earlier dates that others sent to him.
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Milnes Collection Photography, Traditional Music