Morris Brothers
The Morris Brothers play a variety
of instruments, including banjo,
fiddle, dulcimer, and auto harp.
They have performed a number of
years at festivals such as the W.Va.
Folk Festival and the Ohio Hills
Folk Festival, as well as at college
concerts and coffeehouses. They
have organized their own music
festival, the Morris Family Oletime
Music Festival, held at Ivydale each
September. In 1969, they traveled
for the Yablonsky UMW campaign,
singing the music of the coal mines
and of the working men and women
of Appalachia.
The Oletime Mountain Music
Show, a troupe of 'downhome' and
'uptown' mountain musicians, will
be presented at the University on
Saturday, Oct. 31 by The Virginia
Weekly. The event will take place in
Cabell Hall Auditorium at 8:00 PM.
The performers featured in the
show include: Ralph Stanley and
the Clinch Mountain Boys, one of
the most accomplished and
well-known bluegrass bands in the
country; the Morris Brothers, Dave
and John, two young, versatile musicians
from West Virginia; Anne
Romaine, a country singer and
songwriter from North Carolina;
and Hazel Dickens, a ballad singer
and songwriter from a West Virginia
coal mining family.
