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2007 The 2007 Fifty-Eighth Annual West Virginia State Folk
Festival is dedicated to old-time musicians Lester Virgil and Malinda Swanetta
McCumbers of Nicut, ![]() 2006 In 2006, the ![]() 2005 The 2005 Folk Festival was dedicated to Phyllis Marks, who entertained the Saturday night Concert audience. She first performed on the concert stage for the festival in 1954 as a young woman. Phyllis turns her blindness into another opportunity to get a laugh and when she sings, it is simply from the heart without pretense.
2004
The 2004 Folk Festival was dedicated to the late Claude
Kemper who carved and painted lifelike birds of ![]() 2003 The 2003 Folk Festival was dedicated to Melvin Wine who
passed away at age 93. "He was a fixture at the And Special Mentions 2007 - 1960 Compiled by Dave Brown Manager of (Dave researched past Folk Festival newspapers to collect these dedications and special mentions)) 2007 Lester and Linda McCumbers 2006 Mossie Bias Taggart &
Frances Myers Schmetzer 2005 Phyllis Marks 2004 Claude Kemper 2003 Melvin Wine 2002 Phoebe Parsons Remembering Sylvia Cottrell O’Brien & Carroll Hardway 2001 Nelson Wells Remembering Glen Smith 2000 Ethel Kemper 1999 Wilson Douglas 1998 Jesse Marks 1997 Tom Luzader Ernie Carpenter passes on…. 1996 Rev. Rita Emerson 1995 Mack Samples Country Store Repairs
Dedicated to Byron Turner Sarah Singleton Old Time
Fiddler passes… 1994 Tom King--A Loss to the
Festival 1993 Worley Gardner’s Dulcimer will
be missed 1992 “Honors the Big Four” Phoeba Parsons, Melvin Wine,
Woody Simmons, Wilson Douglas Noah Cottrell, Lost to the
ages… 1991 Harvey Sampson passes…. 1990 No mention 1989 Remembering Fern Rollyson 1988 No mention 1987 “Lee and Ira, End of an Era” 1986 Dedicated to Marvin Springston 1985 Festival Dedicated in Memory
of Emma Reed 1984 Special Mention Ira Mullins, Evertte Jones,
John Morris, Buddy 1983 1982 No mention 1981 “Festival Loses 5 Important
Contributors” Dr. Patrick Gainer, Lee
Triplett, Jenes Cottrell, Sloane Staggs and Nellie
Engelke Senator Byrd plays fiddle at
Festival 1980 Special Mention Ira Mullins, Frank George
& Joe Dobbs Doc White passes… 1979 No mention 1978 “In Memoriam” Dr. Byron Turner Succumbs 1977 No mention 1976 No mention 1975 No mention 1974 No mention 1973 Special--”Rolly’s” gone 1972 Special Mention Noah Cottrill and Phoebe
Parsons 1971 Special Mention Fern Rollyson 1970 Special Mention Blanche & Otha McDonald
with Rugs and stools 1969 Special Mention Cousin Thelma Boltin 1968 Special Mention Dave Varney-ballads, Aunt
Jennie Wilson, Jim Comstock, Jim Bush &
FF Songbooks 1967 Special Mention Charles Scott--Potter 1966 Guests: Russell Fluharty, also The Madrigal Singers of 1965 Special Mention The Late Carrie Woofter,
Folklore Enthusiast 1964 Special Mention Evelyn & Bob Beers, Folk Entertainers 1963 No mention 1962 No mention 1961 New to Festival this year! Country Store located on the
street beside The Post Office--Official FF
Headquarters 1960 Christmas Party at Country
Store* *this would have been in the Little Kanawha Bank Building when it sat behind the brick bank where the current Post Office sits today, 2007. Also this is the first mention referencing the term ‘Country Store’ I have located. |
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