| Title |
Urban Pioneers interview with Chris Montague, August 14,2007 |
| Alternative Title |
Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Chris Montague |
| Links to Media |
https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9665 |
| Creator |
Montague, Chris, 1948- ; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013 |
| Contributor |
Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Date |
2007-08-14 |
| Date Digital |
2013-06-21 |
| Temporal Coverage |
August 14, 2007 |
| Description |
Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Chris Montague, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Jennifer Bott [now Bateman] served as sound engineer. Transcript by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Subject |
Montague, Chris, 1948- --Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah |
| Keywords |
Chris Montague; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews |
| Table of Contents |
1. General background; 2. Becoming interested in music/learning to play guitar; 3. Discovering the banjo/getting into bluegrass music; 4. High school bands, the Wind River Boys/playing in the Weiser Fiddle Contest; 5. Playing with Hal Cannon and Tom Carter, Uncle Lumpy; 6. Talking about the mindset required in playing and relationship to the music Playing music in college/forming bluegrass fusion band Puddle City in Portland, Oregon; 7. Dissolution of Puddle City/staying in touch with other band members Coming back to Salt Lake City/meeting and playing music with wife, Liz; 8. Talking about ways of "reading" music-sight-reading, tablature, by ear/music for banjo/learning, playing, and jamming styles; 9. Playing with Uncle Lumpy for Utah Urban Pioneers Concert Playing music with wife Liz and others/winding up interview; 10. Talking about music in the family |
| Type |
Sound |
| Genre |
Sound recordings |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
40 minutes, 44 seconds |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6kh166h |
| Setname |
uu_utfolklore |
| ID |
716355 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kh166h |
