Year

Name

Topic

1974

Gary English, Moderator

Panel on Old Time Music, including John Lair, Bradley Kincaid, Lily May Pennington, Asa Martin, Jean Ritchie, Buell Kazee, Bert Layne, and Fred Stanley

1975

Joan Moser, Chairwoman

Panel on Traditional Appalachian Instruments and Music, including John Lair, Janette Carter, Paul Campbell, Byard Ray, Buell Kazee, Sparky Rucker, and Raymond McLain

1976

John Ramsay, Director of BC Recreation Extensions and the Country Dancers

Panel on Traditional Dance Music, including Peter Rogers and John McCutcheon

1977

William H. Tallmadge, BC Music Department

Panel on Cecil Sharp in Kentucky, including Raymond K. McLain, Maude Kilbourne, and Ethel Capps

1978

Bill C. Malone, Professor of History at Tulane University

Traditional Roots of Country Music

1979

Burt Feintuch, Western Kentucky University

Traditional Fiddling in the South

1980

Charles Wolfe, Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro

Early Recording Companies and Old Time Music

1981

Doc Watson, Bill Monroe and Ralph Rinzler

Music and Change in the Region

1982

Jean Ritchie and George Pickow

Collection and Documentation

1983

William H. Tallmadge, BC Music Department

The Lining Hymnody of the Regular Baptist, including singers from the Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptist and Elder Elwood Cornett

1984

Guthrie T. Meade

Seeking out the Early Kentucky Recording Artists

1985

Loyal Jones, Director of Berea College Appalachian Center.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford and the Folk Festival Movement

1986

Bill C. Malone, Professor of History at Tulane University

Bluegrass: Is it Traditional? including Bobbie Malone

1987

W.K. McNeil, Folklorist

The Relationship Between Ozark and Appalachian Music: Similarities and Differences

1988

Ivan M. Tribe, Rio Grande State University

The Stoneman Family of Virginia

1989

Michael Kline, Western Carolina University

Walker Calhoun- Cherokee Singer

1990

Michael Kline, Western Carolina University

Cherokee Music and Dance, including Walker Calhoun and the Raven Rock Dancers

1991

Kinney Rorrer

Banjo Styles of Virginia and North Carolina

1992

John Harrod

In Search of ‘The Lost Hornpipe’: Adventures with Kentucky Traditional Music

1993

Gerald Milnes, Folklorist at Augusta Heritage Center

The Fretted Dulcimer in West Virginia, including Walter Miller

1994

Sparky Rucker

Civil War Music

1995

John Hartford

The Legendary Fiddler Ed Haley

1996

Betty Smith

A Singer Among Singers: Jane Gentry of Madison County, North Carolina

1997

Cari Norris

Lily May Ledford

1998

Susan and Geoff Eacker

Women Banjo Players in Appalachia

1999

Carl Smith, Kentucky State University

Lined Hymns in African-American Churches in Eastern Kentucky

2000

Homer Ledford

Creating Traditional Music Instruments

2001

Alan Jabbour, Founding Director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier

2002

George R. Gibson

Knott County Banjo: History, Tales, Tunes, and Traditions

2003

Phil Jamison, Warren Wilson College

The Square Roots: Origins and Evolution of Southern Appalachians Square Dance 

2004

John Bealle

Sacred Harp as Folksong

2005

John Harrod

A Keen Cut with the Bow: The Art of Kentucky Fiddling

2006

Fred J. Hay, Appalachian State University

Affrilachian Music: Black Musicians and Black/ White Musical Exchange in Appalachia

2007

Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline

Where the Coal Trains Load: World Music of Eastern Pennsylvania