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Jean Ruth Ritchie was an American folk singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player, called by some the "Mother of Folk". In her youth she learned hundreds of folk songs in the traditional way, many of which were Appalachian variants of centuries old British and Irish songs, including dozens of Child Ballads. In adulthood, she shared these songs with wide audiences, as well as writing ...
Jean Ritchie (Perry County (Kentucky), 8 december 1922 – aldaar, 1 juni 2015) was een Amerikaans auteur, artiest, componist en een verzamelaar van folkmuziek. Zij bespeelde een Appalachiaanse dulcimer. Biografie. Ze studeerde in 1946 af aan de Universi ...
Ritchie was married to photographer George Pickow from 1950 until Pickow’s death in 2010. They had two sons, Peter, born in 1954, and Jonathan, born in 1958, and lived in Port Washington, New York. In 2009, Jean Ritchie suffered a stroke. She returned to Berea, Kentucky, where she lived until her death in 2015.
Jean Ritchie (1922–2015) was one of America’s finest and most beloved traditional singers, considered a national treasure for her work in preserving folkways. The eastern Kentucky coal country where she was raised proved creative fodder for composing such songs as “Blue Diamond Mines,” “Black Waters,” and “The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore.” Ritchie is in large part responsible ...
11. Juni 2015 · Jean Ritchie, a peerless traditional singer, musician, folklorist, and donor to the American Folklife Center’s archive, died on June 1, 2015, at her home in Berea, Kentucky. Perhaps the most important singer, interpreter, and proponent of Appalachian traditions since Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1882-1973), she had been part of the American ...
Ritchie, who was born in Viper, Kentucky, interpreted and preserved a vast amount of Appalachian balladry, usually accompanying herself on the dulcimer. She is less known but equally important as a songwriter whose work often protested the exploitation of the land and its people by the coal companies. This album is significant in that it includes both traditional and topical songs from an LP ...
2. Juni 2015 · Jean Ritchie, a singer, musician and writer who helped spearhead a revival of folk music in the 1950s and 1960s with her heartfelt performances of the traditional songs of her native Appalachia ...
