Mrs. Ben Scott and Myrtle B. Wilkinson performing Anglo-American music on the fiddle and tenor banjo, October 31, 1939

Mrs. Ben Scott and Myrtle B. Wilkinson performing Anglo-American music on the fiddle and tenor banjo,
October 31, 1939

Sound recordings: In English.

Comprises a group of field materials documenting Mrs. Ben Scott and Myrtle B. Wilkinson performing Anglo-American dance music on the fiddle and tenor banjo on October 31, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Turlock, California.

Recordings:

Coming round the mountain

Turkey in the straw

Casey Jones

Heel - and - toe polka

Comments by Mrs. Ben Scott about playing the fiddle

Photographs:

Mrs. Ben Scott with fiddle

Myrtle Wilkinson with tenor banjo

Biographical and historical notes:

"Mrs. Ben Scott learned to fiddle as a child in Monterey Co. [California]. She cannot read notes."

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