Ritchie was the youngest of 14 children born to Balis W. She made her life's work the preservation of this musical heritage, which the Library of Congress had catalogued in the 1930s. The Swapping Song Book (1952) A Garland of Mountain Song (1953) (memoir) Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955) From Fair to Fair: Folk Songs of the British Isles (1966).īorn in 1922 into a musical family whose ancestors had been among the first to settle in the Cumberland Mountain region of Appalachia in the 1700s, Jean Ritchie grew up hearing and singing the traditional songs that her family had passed along for generations. Selected recordings:Ĭhildren's Songs and Games from the Southern Mountains (1957) Folk Concert in Town Hall, New York (1959) British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains, Volumes 1 and 2 (1960) Precious Memories (1962) High Hills and Mountains (1979) None But One (1981). Received Fulbright grant (1952) to study folk music of the British Isles sang at first annual Newport Folk Festival (July 1959). Ritchie (a former schoolteacher and farmer) and Abigail (Hall) Ritchie attended Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky University of Kentucky in Lexington, A.B., 1946 married George Pickow (a photographer), on Septemchildren: Jonathan Balis Peter Ritchie Pickow. Born in Viper, Kentucky, on Decemdaughter of Balis W.
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