NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TRADITIONAL MUSIC PROJECT
photos by Wiley Prewitt

  
          

  

Dulcimer clubs that meet for weekly practice and performance have sprung up throughout Northeast Mississippi.

  

                                                

    Former music venue in Ripley

 

                  

Television personality and yodeler Kay Bain with Joe Garrett of the Hatchie Bottom Boys bluegrass group

 

 


Bobby Carter, of Amory, continues his family's long tradition of fiddle playing.

 

 

 
 

  

Joann Reel, of Houlka, organizes gospel shows at the local 
community center and hosts a Saturday afternoon 
radio show in Houston.

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Roy Miller hosts a popular Saturday morning jam session at his music store in New Albany.

 
 

 

Leroy Campbell leads the group the Mississippi Lively Ones, which includes his niece Silvia Dodson (left). Their repertoire of country music and popular tunes from the first half of the twentieth century keeps them in demand among the older crowd in the Tupelo area.