Utah Urban Pioneers -- Archives Emails, 2006-2010

Email archive of Polly Stewart, and others, 2006-2010. Includes messages in advance of the January 2007 "Urban Pioneers" concert; arrangements for the preservation of documentation from the project with the Culture Conservation Corps; and plans for a tribute concert in honor of Utah Phillips

Mai I Message Close Previous Next Forward Reply to Sender Reply All From: To: Polly Stewart Date: Thursday - February 16, 2006 11 :54 AM Subject: Geezer alert: SLC Urban Revival Revival Aug. 25-27, 2006 tJ> Mime.822 (3823 bytes) Mewl lliC!ve A§] Move Delete Read Later UTAHFOLKLORISTS--PLEASE CIRCULATE AS INDICATED. INCLUDE YOURSELF IF YOU ARE A GEEZER Thurs Howdy, neighbor- I'm writing you because you were a musician or singer participating in the 1960's folk music scene in Salt Lake City or elsewhere in Utah. In completion of the first phase of an oral-history project about the Urban Folk Revival of the late 1960's as it was experienced in Utah, I have an article featuring Bruce Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels coming out in the Summer 2006 issue of Utah Historical Quarterly, a special issue on folklore in Utah that I think will probably be mailed in July. In conjunction with that publishing event, Bruce Phillips and I are trying to stage a one-shot revival concert in SLC featuring as many of the people involved in the mid-1960's statewide folk scene as possible. The only time Bruce can do this will be the last weekend of August 2006. I want to reach as many people as I can to see if we can nail down a commitment for this concert six months down the road. Might you be able to participate? We don't know about a venue, exact date and time, tickets, funding, publicity, format, or anything like that just yet. I can tell you, though, that there is excitement·among staff at the Quarterly, and I feel fairly sure that if we can get the concert sewed up in a timely fashion, we will be able to garner publicity and other support for it through the august Utah State Historical Society. (USHS would not be the only channel, of course.) Here are the names of some of the people who participated in that grand era 40 years ago-by no means an exhaustive list, but merely the ones that have been brainstormed to date. Your receiving this is a sign that I have your e-mail address; for others I have a phone number but no e-mail, others I do not know how to reach. I believe that some of the people on this list may no longer be living. Please look this over and tell me what you can about e-mail addresses, snailmail addresses, phone numbers, and MORE NAMES. Do please also indicate if you will be available to participate in the geezerfest on the last weekend of August. I want to do further oral-history research on the Utah folk revival, so please respond even if you are not available for the concert. Brent Bradford Hal Cannon (have written him) Tom Carter Bruce W. Cummings Byron Davis Steve Lawson Mackie Magleby Pete Netka ovelf. Properties Print View https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.context=rqeln6Rdassfjd5Ki5&1... 2/16/2006 Novell WebAccess Bruce Utah Phillips (have written him) Fred Rinehart Dave Roylance (have written him) Rosalie Sorrels (have written her) Jim Sorrrels Polly Stewart Heather Stewart (have written her) Amy Theodore Barre Toelken You are currently subscribed to utahfolklorists as: . To unsubscribe send a blank email to Page 2 of2 https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.context=rqeln6Rdassfjd5Ki5&1... 2/16/2006 Novell WebAccess Page 1 of3 Mail Message oveH. Close Next Delete From This Mailbox Delete From All Mailboxes Forward Reply to Sender Reply All Move Delete Read Later Properties Print View From: Polly Stewart To: Polly Stewart Date: Friday - March 10, 2006 12:34 AM Subject: Sorrels, Rosalie, Appearance as principal performer Sorrels, Rosalie Appearance as principal performer Ain't Nobody Got the Blues Like Me, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 3 Another Woman's Man, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 10 Ashes on the Sea, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #A.01 Aunt Molly Jackson Defines Folk Songs Once and for All, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut#B.04 Awful, Oh How Awful, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 10 Awful, Oh How Awful, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 12 Basque Christmas Song, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 15 Blue Mountain, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut#B.04 Brightwood Fire, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 12 Brigham Young, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 3 Brigham Young, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 2 Brigham Young, 124 Folk Songs as Sung and Recorded on Folkways Records, Robbins Music, Fol (1965), p 28 Bucking Bronco, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 1 Christine LeRoy, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 4 Come And Be My Driver, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 5 Come Girls, Come (Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys), Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 2 Come Girls, Come (Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys), Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #8.03 Cool Green Shores of Erin, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #A.04 Death of Kathy Fiscus, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut#4 Dying Californian, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.07 Echo Canyon, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP ( 196?), cut #B. 08 Elegant Hobo, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 6 Erin's Green Shore, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #8.02 Falling in Love Again (I Can't Help It), Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 2 Female Highwayman, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 13 Find A Wife, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 8 First Fall of Snow, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 7 Fourth of July, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 13 Fourth of July, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 2 Fox, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 1 O Fox, 124 Folk Songs as Sung and Recorded on Folkways Records, Robbins Music, Fol (1965), p 48 Foxy Devil, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #B.01 Girl of Constant Sorrow, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 4 Girl that Played lnjun with Me, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut# 6 Gospel News, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP ( 196?), cut #A.02 Green Firefalls, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 4 Hall of Fame, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP ( 1972), cut# 8 Handcart Song, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.08 Hard Times Come Again No More (Mormon version), Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut#B.02 https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.context=ovamw2Xpftnbfh8Pu8... 3/9/2006 Novell WebAccess Page 2 of3 Haunted Hunter, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 6 Haunted Hunter, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 14 High Flying Wonder, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 8 House Carpenter, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 14 I'll Give You My Story, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut# 5 I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #A.02 I Am a Union Woman, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #8.05 If You Love Me, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #A.05 I Left My Baby, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP ( 1961 ), cut# 16 Jerusalem, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 14 Juanita, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 9 Just a Country Girl, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 1 Just One More Cowboy, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 6 Last Letter, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #8.03 Lineman's Hymn, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 1 Little Birdie, Winterfolk X Live, Sisters of the Road, CD (1998), cut# 6 Logan's Lament, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 8 Lonesome Roving Wolves, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 1 Lonesome Roving Wolves, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.06 Merry Mormons, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 5 Moments of Happiness, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 1 Mormon Sunday School, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 15 Mormon Yankee Doodle, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut#B.10 My Dearest Dear, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF ·1042, LP (1982), cut #B.06 My Last Cigar, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 12 Nobody's, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 2 None Can Preach the Gospel Like the Mormons Do, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.01 No One Knows Me, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 10 Once I Lived in Cottenwood, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut#B.05 On the Road to California, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.OS Philadelphia Lawyer, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 17 Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.03 Rags to my Back, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 11 Roadrunner #2, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 3 Rock, Salt and Nails, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 9 Rock, Salt and Nails, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 6 Satisfied, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #A.03 Seagulls and Crickets, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #8.06 See You Stand That Way, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 9 Sierry Petes/Peaks (Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail), Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 9 Singing in the Country, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 7 Star of Bannock, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 11 State of Arkansas, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut # 12 St. George and the Drag-On, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #B.09 There's an Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight (Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight), Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut# 8 This is the Day We Give Babies Away, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 3b Tittery Irie-Aye, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.04 Toast, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 11 To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places, Winterfolk X Live, Sisters of the Road, CD (1998), cut #15 Too Many Strangers, Whatever Happened to the Girl That Was?, Paramount PAS 6072, LP (1972), cut# 4 Truth Is on the Streets, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP ( 197?), cut# 5 Two Brothers (Willie and John/Johnny), Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 9 https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.context=ovamw2Xpftnbfh8Pu8... 3/9/2006 Novell WebAccess Two Sisters, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 5 Unknown Grave, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 7 Unknown Grave, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #A.09 Up Is a Nice Place to Be, Moments of Happiness, Philo 1033, LP (197?), cut# 10 Utah's Dixie, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut# 7 Way Out in Idaho, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 11 Where Babies Grow on Trees, Rosalie's Songbag, Prestige International INT 13025, LP (196?), cut# 3a Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #B.01 Wild Colonial Boy, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961 ), cut# 15 Page 3 of3 Winter Song, Lonesome Roving Wolves. Songs & Ballads of the West, Green Linnet SIF 1024, LP (1980), cut# 7 Winter Song, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut# 3 Wreck of Number Nine, Folksongs of Idaho and Utah, Folkways FH-5343, LP (1961), cut# 13 You've Got to Go to Sleep Alone, Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1, Green Linnet SIF 1042, LP (1982), cut #A.06 Zack the Mormon Engineer, Songs of the Morman Pioneers, Festival LB 2582, LP (196?), cut #8.07 https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=ltem.Read&User.context=ovamw2Xpftnbfh8Pu8... 3/9/2006 Novell WebAccess https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.cont. .. Mail Message Novell. Close Delete From This Mailbox Delete From All Mailboxes Forward Reply to Sender Reply All Move Delete Read LaterProperties Print View From: Polly Stewart To: Date: Thursday - August 24, 2006 9:57 PM Subject: Re: Thanks for the Malad Welsh Society history & other docs Tom, the er Concert is an outgrowth of the UHQ article project, itself an outgrowth of my service as publisher's reader (in January 2004) for the manuscript of a book called _Folklore in Utah_, which, I could not help noticing, had virtually no mention of the urban folk music revival in Utah, and particularly of Bruce Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels. Upon reflection, after peeling myself down off the ceiling, I realized that the researchers who had written the chapters for that book could not have done otherwise, for they were all too young to have any direct memory of the ufmr in Utah, if indeed they were even in Utah at that time. And they were working exclusively from documentary resources, as they should, and there were NO DOCUMENTS about the Utah ufmr, or very few. So I realized that if there were ever to be a historical record of the Uufmr, someone would have to establish it through primary documentation of the principals who were still living. So I arranged presented a paper on this matter at the 2004 AFS meeting in SLC, and brought Rosalie and Hal CAnnon and Barre Toelken in for a panel session, and arranged an evening concert for Rosalie and Hal and others to sing. Subsequently, there was discussion about the value of preparing a special folklore issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly, using AFS papers about Utah folklore as a springboard. So a small stable of co-editors was assembled, yours truly and two faculty members at BYU who had lots of experience with publishing and of working with the UHQ staff. Naturally, my paper on the Uufmr was in the lineup. So I began doing research seriously, including traveling to Idaho City, ID to interview Rosalie a couple of times, and traveling to Nevada City, CA to interview Bruce a couple of times. And I pulled together the scholarship on ballad and folksong research that had been done in Utah, and stuff like that. Everything you see in the article. In the course of my second interview of Bruce, in July 2005, Bruce waxed enthusiastic and said the equivalent of "Say, kids, let's put on a show!" It was a heartfelt and genuine statement of desire to reassemble, for a concert, the key living performers from the era. Everybody who was still living was 40 years older than then (hence the folk name for this initiative, Geezer Concert. It won't be billed that way). I knew that there was a shitload of work to be done on such a concert and that I was going to be the one to do the work. But you don't say no to Bruce Phillips. At least I don't. So here we are, scrambling around trying to get a venue for the concert date, January 24, 2007. Don't ask how difficult it was to arrive at that date. There are 10 performers. >>> 08124106 9:27 PM >>> Ihe G ~C sounds fabulous. Do tell me more. My short visit with Chinese opera under the arching trees was mixed. Indeed one must work at the listenability part. Our performers, for such an casual setting, exhibited the full character, not only of singing, but also of the five-piece orchestra - each musician's role was explained to the audience. And there was a brief introduction to the way of Chinese singing, which apparently has to do with retaining the power behind the lips rather than projecting from the diaphragm through an open mask. We also got treated to three or four sets of costumes, the most elaborate -­which would put a Vegas review to shame - coming at the end. Unfortunately, the troupe did not observe a western-style theater rule. The costumes were assembled on a fully exposed wing of the stage - slowly, over Cultural Arts and Heritage Consulting/ Research Writing/ Special Projects January 6, 2010 Dear Polly, Enclosed, please find a disc containing transcripts and subject indexes for your interviews with Tanyu Howard and Wally Bryner. As always, the content is fascinating and enjoyable! Just to remind you of my m.o., where you find (?), it means that I have written what I thought I heard, but was not entirely sure. When you see (inaudible), means I didn't hear enough to venture a guess. I suspect that you will go through the transcripts while listening to the recordings, sc that you •.. v rn hopefuliy be able to fill in the gaps and address any mistakes on my part. You can also search for these markers, so that you can catch them all. Also enclosed are the two discs that Jerinifer sent me with the sound files from which I worked. Thanks for including me in this work-I have so enjoyed being a part of this project and having the opportunity to work with you. It's been wonderful learning about the Utah Urban Pioneers phenomenon-truly, a meaningful and educational experience for me. You've collected some incredibly important and interesting information. I know that the Trove will find a good home, and will provide a valuable record of an era. Thank goodness you were motivated to dream up and tackle this project! Please keep me posted as you plan for the Trove Ceremony. If I can make it, I surely will get myself there. Beyond that, I hope our paths will cross again. ~ebest, u:l:==s Green, Ph.D. PRESS RELEASE (NARRATIVE FORMAT) November 10, 2006 TO: CONTACT: . Please edit as needed. Our January 2007 Concert of the Month will be "Urban Pioneers: A Concert of the 1960s Folk Music Revival in Utah," a collaborative venture sponsored jointly by the Intermountain Acoustic Music Association, the Folklore Society of Utah, the Utah Arts Council, and the Utah State Historical Society, with support from the Salt Lake City Arts Council. The concert will be held Wednesday, January 24, 2007 starting at 7:30 p.m. at Highland High School Auditorium, 2100 South and 1700 East, Salt Lake City. Tickets may be obtained for $15 at regular IAMA event outlets, or by visiting (click on Events), or at the door. The featured artists for this concert will be performers who were singing and playing locally in Salt Lake City and elsewhere in Utah during the great urban folk music revival of the late 1950s and 1960s, a movement that swept the nation and captivated large portions of the public for a decade before it went quietly "under the radar" in the aftermath of cataclysmic historic national and world events in 1968. The earliest and most visible of these Utah artists are Rosalie Sorrels and Utah Phillips, "urban pioneers" who, in the vanguard of the home-grown version of the urban folk music revival that was being experienced elsewhere throughout the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, experimented with repertoire and performance style as they respectively (and unknowingly) prepared for professional performing careers after leaving the state of Utah in the late 1960s. Sorrels and Phillips will be joined on the stage by the equally well-known Utah folklorist-performer Hal Cannon, who as a boy in Salt Lake City in the early 1960s took guitar lessons from Jim Sorrels and Utah Phillips, in the process gaining not merely repertoire and musical technique but an esthetic that has informed his later professional work. Cannon, Heather Stewart Dorrell, and Brent Bradford were high-school sophomores in the spring of 1964 when, in emulation of the blooming of urban folk music performance all around them, they initiated a popular folk music club in Salt Lake City's high schools. Bradford is still leader of the Stormy Mountain Boys, a bluegrass group he formed with Cannon and others, which (using different personnel) performs to this day at bluegrass festivals throughout the West. Barre Toelken, a renowned scholar-singer who entered the Salt Lake City scene in 1964 and taught for two years at the University of Utah, is today a professor emeritus at Utah State. Several of the artists performing in the January 24 concert joined the urban folk music revival early and played bluegrass and other types of traditional music throughout the years of the folk music revival's greatest popularity in Salt Lake City-banjoist Mac Magleby, vocalist­guitarist- mandolinist Bruce Cummings, dobroist Pete Netka, banjoist-guitarist Dave Roylance, and vocalist-autoharpist Polly Stewart performed solo and also teamed up with others from time to time to create local groups, for example Polly and the Valley Boys (Phillips, Roylance and Stewart) and the Salt City Bluegrass Band (Magleby, Netka, Cummings, and others). The January 24 concert will honor the publication of Polly Stewart's article, "Urban Pioneers: The Folk-Music Revival in Utah, 1959-1966,: in the Utah Historical Quarterly (Summer 2006), and will mark the first time in four decades these artists of the 1960s urban folk music revival have appeared in the same performance venue. ### Novell WebAccess https://gw2.salisbury.edu/servlet/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.cont. .. Mail Message Novell. Close Delete From This Mailbox Delete From All Mailboxes Forward Reply to Sender Reply All Move Delete Read Later Properties From: To: Date: Subject: #' Friday - November 10, 2006 5:39 PM Concert press release narrative format Urban Pioneers Press release to IAMA Newsletter narrative format 10Nov06.doc (18432 bytes) PRESS RELEASE (NARRATIVE FORMAT) November 10, 2006 TO: Barb Cantonwine, Editor, I.A.MA Newsletter CONTACT: Please edit as needed. Print View [View] [Open] [Save As] Our January 2007 Concert of the Month will be "Urban Pioneers: A Concert of the 1960s Folk Music Revival in Utah," a collaborative venture sponsored jointly by the lntermountain Acoustic Music Association, the Folklore Society of Utah, the Utah Arts Council, and the Utah State Historical Society, with support from the Salt Lake City Arts Council. The concert will be held Wednesday, January 24, 2007 starting at 7:30 p.m. at Highland High School Auditorium, 2100 South and 1700 East, Salt Lake City. Tickets may be obtained for $15 at regular IAMA event outlets, or by visiting (click on Events), or at the door. The featured artists for this concert will be performers who were singing and playing locally in Salt Lake City and elsewhere in Utah during the great urban folk music revival of the late 1950s and 1960s, a movement that swept the nation and captivated large portions of the public for a decade before it went quietly "under the radar" in the aftermath of cataclysmic historic national and world events in 1968. The earliest and most visible of these Utah artists are Rosalie Sorrels and Utah Phillips, "urban pioneers" who, in the vanguard of the home-grown version of the urban folk music revival that was being experienced elsewhere throughout the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, experimented with repertoire and performance style as they respectively (and unknowingly) prepared for professional performing careers after leaving the state of Utah in the late 1960s. Sorrels and Phillips will be joined on the stage by the equally well-known Utah folklorist-performer Hal Cannon, who as a boy in Salt Lake City in the early 1960s took guitar lessons from Jim Sorrels and Utah Phillips, in the process gaining not merely repertoire and musical technique but an esthetic that has informed his later professional work. Cannon, Heather Stewart Dorrell, and Brent Bradford were high-school sophomores in the spring of 1964 when, in emulation of the blooming of urban folk music performance all around them, they initiated a popular folk music club in Salt Lake City's high schools. Bradford is still leader of the Stormy Mountain Boys, a bluegrass group he formed with Cannon and others, which (using different personnel) performs to this day at bluegrass festivals throughout the West. Barre Toelken, a renowned scholar-singer who entered the Salt Lake City scene in 1964 and taught for two years at the University of Utah, is today a professor emeritus at Utah State. Several of the artists performing in the January 24 concert joined the urban folk music revival early and played bluegrass and other types of traditional music throughout the years of the folk music revival's greatest popularity in Salt Lake City-banjoist Mac Magleby, vocalist-guitarist-mandolinist Bruce Cummings, dobroist Pete Netka, banjoist-guitarist Dave Roylance, and vocalist-autoharpist Polly Stewart performed solo and also teamed up with others from time to time to create local groups, for example Polly and the Valley Boys (Phillips, Roylance and Stewart) and the Salt City Bluegrass Band (Magleby, Netka, Cummings, and others). The January 24 concert will honor the publication of Polly Stewart's article, "Urban Pioneers: The Folk-Music Revival in Utah, 1959-1966,: in the Utah Historical Quarterly (Summer 2006), and will mark the first time in four decades these artists of the 1960s urban folk music revival have appeared in the same performance venue. ### PRESS RELEASE (BULLET FORMAT) November 10, 2006 TO: Barb Cantonwine, Editor, I.A.M.A. Newsletter CONTACT: Polly Stewart, WHAT: Urban Pioneers: A Concert of the 1960s Folk Music Revival in Utah WHEN: Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Highland High School Auditorium, 2100 South and 1700 East, Salt Lake City SPONSORED AND SUPPORTED BY: The Intermountain Acoustic Music Association, the Folklore Society of Utah, the Utah State Historical Society, the Utah Arts Council, and the Salt Lake City Arts Council. FEATURING: Bluegrass, old-time music, ballads, labor and protest songs, and original material from the 1960s performed solo and in various combinations by Rosalie Sorrels, Utah Phillips, Hal Cannon, Mac Magleby, Bruce W. Cummings, Peter Netka, Brent Bradford and the Stormy Mountain Boys, Heather Stewart Dorrell, Dave Roylance, Polly Stewart, Barre Toelken, and others. WHY: The "urban folk music revival" or "folk revival" was a wide-ranging social and artistic movement characterized by its appropriation and presentation of various types of folk music from their original contexts to outside audiences; the movement also produced quantities of new music based upon folk models. The folk revival swept the nation starting in the late 1950s and it played a quite visible role in public affairs through the end of the next decade. The urban folk music revival was experienced and played out in a localized and culturally relevant way in Utah. Oral-history research for an article published in a special Utah Folklore issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly in Summer 2006, "Urban Pioneers: The Folk Music Revival in Utah, 1959- 1966," by Polly Stewart, sparked interest in mounting a retrospective concert of Utah artists who participated in the urban revival movement as it was experienced in Utah. The resulting concert of January 24, 2007 will mark the first time in four decades that most of these artists have played together; it will also mark last time they are likely to perform together on the same stage. HOW MUCH: $15. For sales and information, visit and click on Events. CONCERT PRODUCERS [not for publication]: Carol Edison Craig Miller Polly Stewart FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 December 2006 Contact: Urban Pioneers: A Concert of the 1960s Folk Music Revival in Utah A concert celebrating Utah's "urban folk music revival," featuring local musicians and singers who performed the music in Utah venues during the 1960s, will be held Wednesday, January 24, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. at Highland High Auditorium, 2100 South and 1700 East, Salt Lake City. Bluegrass, old-time music, protest songs, other topical songs of the era, English ballads, and folk songs of Utah and Idaho will be performed. Headliners Rosalie Sorrels and Utah Phillips will be joined by other performers who got their inspiration from these two "Urban Pioneers" during the urban revival's heyday, including Hal Cannon's trio "Uncle Lumpy"; Mac Magleby's "Rosewood Trio"; Brent Bradford's "Stormy Mountain Boys"; "Polly and the Valley Boys," Bruce W. Cummings; and Heather Stewart Dorrell. Inspired by an article in the Summer 2006 issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly and sponsored jointly by the Intermountain Acoustic Music Association, the Folklore Society of Utah, Intermountain Guitar and Banjo, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Utah Arts Council, the Utah State Historical Society, and KRCL 90.9 FM Radio, the Urban Pioneers concert will mark the first gathering in four decades of these performers from the 1960s. Tickets are $15. For concert and ticket information, visit online at ### SUGGESTED CAPTION FOR ATTACHED PHOTO IMAGE: Urban Pioneers Concert headliners Rosalie Sorrels and Bruce "Utah" Phillips at the Northern Rockies.Folk Festival, Sun Valley, ID, c. 1977. Photo by Lynnette Hart. Courtesy Rosalie Sorrels. Novell WebAccess https://groupwise.salisbmy.edu/gw/webacc?action=Item.Read&User.c ... 1 ofl Mail Message ~Reply• Mail Properties Resend From: · • Read later 0~ Subject: RE: Urban Pioneers on Rad.io\AtartJ'23fff/., confirmation Elaine, yes indeed, w ' Thanks again, p > > > 08/22/0 > > Thanks Polly. We are happy to give · s1on for your use of the Delete. 8 program. If possible, would you be · d enough to send a copy of the f transcription for our files? Regards, Elaine Elaine Clark Senior Producer Be part of the RadioWest conversation any time. Visit our on-Jine discussion board at http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/kuer/forums/fist.page ~ P~~ 4- ~dV\ ~ ~v-y. ~ ~ , , 8/22/2008 3 :03 PM Novell WebAccess https://groupwise.salisbmy.edu/gw/webacc?actioIFitemRead&User.co ... 1 ofl Mail Message .fP Reply .,.. Resend Read Later Delete ..,. t.:..J Mail Properties From: Tuesday- December 29, 2009 3:40 PM To: Subject: Re: FW: transcription [Urban Pioneers] 12/29/09 Dear Jennifer, It was good to talk with you on the phone a while ago. This is to confirm that you can send a check for $467.25 (the amount of Angela's invoice plus 5% overhead for CCC- please check my calculation, as I am inept with arithmetic, even on a calculator -to Culture Conservation Corps, 773 E. 1st Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, at any time, Craig's question about the end of the calendar year being not of concern to you. Please also send CCC a copy of Angela's invoice, either in electronic form or on paper (if the former, send it to [e-mail] ). Some time after the new year, let's plan to spend an afternoon going over which Urban Pioneers papers we should scan for inclusion in the trove. If it will help you to do this before the semester begins, that's fine with me. I'm fairly open right now during the day. Let me know what day(s) would work for you and we'll work out a mutually acceptable date. Best wishes to you for a happy new year, and good luck on your relations with your family. See you soon, p > > > Jennifer Bateman 12/28/09 3:04 PM > > > Polly, Looks like Angela's done now. I just got the email. Jennifer 12/29/2009 2:26 PM Novell WebAccess https://groupwise.salisbmy.edu/gw/webacc?actioIFltemRead&User.co ... 1 ofl Mail Message Reply • Mail Properties Resend ... , ....J Read Later Delete .... t.,:j From: Polly Stewart Wednesday - December 30, 2009 12:51 PM To: CC: Jennifer Bateman Subject: Re: Fwd: [PUBLORE] 3 independent folklorists 12/30/09 Laura, good to hear from you. Next week will be in plenty time for the last of the transcriptions. During January, Jennifer and I will select out paper documents (e.g., the release forms) for scanning and putting on CD, making the archive as nearly paperless as possible. I will in addition compose an introduction of sorts and a survey of contents and a list of bibliographical resources, and maybe some other stuff, all to be put on CD. I do already have some notes and correspondence on this ancillary material but if you have any ideas about what should be included, please let me know. (I'm sure rll be writing you again about this before too long.) Happy New Year to you and Steve, p >>> Laura Marcus 12/30/09 11:57 AM>>> Hi Polly, Thanks for your kind words about the PUBLORE posting. And for the Utah Urban Pioneers update. I've been working on the transcripts - Wally Bryner is done, and I'm over halfway through the Tanyu Howard transcript. If there is no rush, r11 plan on having all the work done next week, and will send you a disc with the new transcripts and indexes, along with the discs Jennifer sent me. As always, it's been interesting and enjoyable work! It sounds like the ceremony will take place in due time, so fll stand by for the details as those plans come together. We're in Texas just now for the holidays and will be heading home on Sunday, arriving back in New Mexico on Monday. T wic;h vn11 hnth ;t vPrv h;tnnv ;tnrl hP;tlthv 70101 12/30/2009 11:19 AM Cultural Arts and Heritage Consulting, Research, Writin~Special Projects January 5, 2010 Dear Craig and Chris, I am writing to invoice the Cultural Conservation Corps for my transcription work for the Utah Urban Pioneers project. 1bis invoice covers 11.25 hours' worth of work- transcription and copy-editing interviews by Polly Stewart with Tanyu Howard and Wally Bryner. At my rate of $20 an hour, the total adds up to $225 for this work. Until January 16th, I will be in New Mexico: After that, I'll be in Elko for a few weeks. I can give you an alte.mate address, if the check should go out after January 11th or so. If you have any questions about this invoice or the work, please let me know. Many thanks to you both and the CCC for your help. May the New Year bring all good things your way! All the best, Laura Marcus Green cc Polly Stewart t'nm view / \M(~ 1 of2 From: To: Date: Subject: Wednesday - February 17, 2010 10:59 AM Phillips Tribute Fundraising Information Hello musicians! Below is fundraising information that has been posted on the Utah Phillips blog and other places. This recording project will be funded by donations, so we ask that you forward this information below to anyone you know who might be interested in making a financial contribution. Please also consider posting it on your website, or adding a link from your site to one of the links in the below information. If you or anyone you know would like to contribute a home for a house concert evening, as a project fundraiser, that would also be highly appreciated. We will be fundraising from now through the completion of the project. Thanks, Kate Macleod call for Donations to Utah Phillips' Tribute Recording: Duncan Phillips, son of the legendary folksinger, social activist, storyteller and all-around lovable character, Bruce "Utah" Phillips, is creating a tribute recording in honor of his father and his father's musical contributions. Duncan accompanied his father on many tours, and grew well-acquainted with his father's thoughts, wishes and opinions. Duncan has developed a vision of a tribute CD that reflects Utah Phillips, in a personal and authentic manner. Although the recording has not been titled yet, this stage of production is called The Long Memory Project. Since Utah took his name from and was influenced by the state of Utah, this recording will feature Utah-based musicians who have been influenced and inspired by Utah Phillips' music. They will perform some of Utah Phillips' songs. There may also be some spoken word and probably some recordings of Utah's own speaking. Duncan has invited songwriter/fiddler/producer Kate Macleod to produce this recording. We invite the public to donate funds to support this recording project in honor of Utah Phillips' memory. Even small donations will be truly appreciated. The funds will be used for recording studio time and manufacturing costs. The eventual income generated by the project will be used for preservation and further development of Utah Phillips' archives and legacy. You can request to be added to an email mailing list through which you will be sent updates about the project from the production team. Recording for this project will begin in the latter half of March, 2010, with a projected recording release date in January, 2011. Make Donations Payable To: Duncan Phillips Mail Donations To: The Long Memory, P.O. Box 711668, Salt Lake City, UT, 84171 Mailing List for Updates: Request by Email to - [e-mail] Utah Phillips Blog: http:/ /utahphillips.blogspot.com/ The Long Memory Website: For Updates About this Project: 2/17/2010 1:44 PM Wd Lt<Ol l IO'l/tl/Zl Urban Pioneers research resource From program guide, KUSU.fm (Utah State University, Logan) • January 9 [2007] • Some of the most prominent musicians from Utah's 1960's folk music scene will be returning to the stage for a concert this month in Salt Lake City. Folklore scholar Polly Stewart, formerly of the Salt Lake City group "Polly and the Valley Boys", will preview the upcoming concert in an interview with Host Lee Austin to discuss the music and the times from four decades ago in the Salt Lake Area. Accessed 15 December 2011 This taped interview of 5 or 7 minutes had some anecdotal material about Utah Phillips. Lee Austin may be able to retrieve the recording and let us have a copy via e­transmission. --Polly 12/15/11 ZJOZ