The Southern Highland Reader

SYLVA–Storyteller and thespian Gary Carden blogged yesterday about folksinger Hedy West’s years at Western Carolina in the late fifties.

An excerpt:

Within a decade of her sojourn in Cullowhee, she would be a celebrated folk musician playing at festivals with Pete Seeger and on her way to study folk music at Columbia where she would meet Allen Lomax.

West (center) and friends at WCU

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