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:: 2002 NEA National Heritage Fellows
Ralph Blizard
Old-time fiddler
Blountville, TN
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Loren Bommelyn
Tolowa tradition bearer
Crescent City, CA
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Kevin Burke
Irish fiddler
Portland, OR
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Rose and Francis Cree
Ojibwe basketmakers/storytellers
Dunseith, ND
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Nadim Dlaikan
Lebanese nye (reed flute) player
Southgate, MI
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Luderin Darbone and Edwin Duhon
Cajun fiddler and accordionist
Sulphur, LA; Westlake, LA
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David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Blues guitarist/singer
Chicago, IL
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Flory Jagoda
Sephardic musician/composer
Falls Church, VA
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Clara Neptune Keezer
Passamaquoddy basketmaker
Perry, ME
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Bob McQuillen
Contra dance musician/composer
Peterborough, NH
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Domingo "Mingo" Saldivar
Conjunto accordionist
San Antonio, TX
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Losang Samten
Tibetan sand mandala painter
Philadelphia, PA
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Jean Ritchie
Appalachian musician/songwriter
Port Washington, NY & Viper, KY
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In 1982 the National Endowment for the Arts established the
NEA National Heritage Awards as a way of honoring American folk artists
for their contributions to our national cultural mosaic. Modelled after
the Japanese "National Living Treasures" concept, the idea began with
Bess Lomax Hawes, then director of the Folk Arts Program.
Profile materials for 1982-2007 courtesy of Documentary Arts. Use of some photographs courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives & Collections
NEA Heritage Fellows
1982-2012:
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