Jean Ritchie

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Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie após apresentação em 26 de Abril de 2008.
Informações gerais
Nascimento	8 de dezembro de 1922 Viper, Kentucky, Estados Unidos
Morte	1 de junho de 2015 (92 anos) Berea, Kentucky, Estados Unidos
Gênero	Folk
Ocupação	Cantora-compositora
Cônjuge	George Pickow (1950–2010); 2 filhos (Jonathan e Peter Pickow)
Instrumentos	Voz, Saltério dos Apalaches
Período em atividade	1948 - 2015
Gravadoras	Folkways, Elektra, Sire, Greenhays, Flying Fish, Riverside, Tradition, Argo, Collector, June Appal Recordings, Pacific Cascade Records, Warner Brothers

Jean Ritchie (Viper, Kentucky, 8 de dezembro de 1922 – Berea, Kentucky, 1 de junho de 2015) foi uma cantora-compositora norte-americana de folk, e tocadora de saltério dos Apalaches.

Problemas de saúde e morte

No início de dezembro de 2009, Ritchie foi hospitalizada depois de sofrer um acidente vascular cerebral que prejudicou sua capacidade de se comunicar.
Ela viveu em Berea, Kentucky até sua morte em junho de 2015. Ela morreu em casa.

Discografia

• Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family (1952)
• Kentucky Mountains Songs (1954)
• Field Trip (1954)
• Courting Songs (1954)
• Shivaree (1955)
• The Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955)
• Children's Songs & Games from the Southern Mountains (1956)
• Songs from Kentucky (1956)
• American Folk Tales and Songs (1956)
• Saturday Night and Sunday Too (1956)
• The Ritchie Family of Kentucky (1958)
• Riddle Me This (1959) (with Oscar Brand)
• Carols for All Seasons (1959)
• British Traditional Ballads, Vol 1 (1961)
• British Traditional Ballads, Vol 2 (1961)
• Ballads (2003; vol 1 and 2 above, issued on a single CD)
• Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition (1961)
• Precious Memories (1962)
• The Appalachian Dulcimer: An Instructional Record (1963)
• Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson Live at Folk City (1963)
• Time For Singing (1966)
• Marching Across the Green Grass & Other American Children's Game Songs (1968)
• Clear Waters Remembered (1974)
• Jean Ritchie At Home (1974)
• None But One (1977)
• Christmas Revels. Wassail! Wassail! (1982)
• O Love Is Teasin' (1985)
• Kentucky Christmas, Old and New (1987)
• The Most Dulcimer (1992)
• Mountain Born (1995)
• High Hills and Mountains (1996)
• Childhood Songs (1997)
• Legends of Old time Music (2002, DVD)

Bibliografia

• Ritchie, Jean (1955). Singing family of the Cumberlands. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Nova Iorque: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8131-0186-6. LCCN 55005554 
• Ritchie, Jean (1963). The dulcimer book; being a book about the three-stringed Appalachian dulcimer, including some ways of tuning and playing; some recollections in its local history in Perry and Knott Counties, Kentucky. Nova Iorque: Oak Music. LCCN 63020754 
• Ritchie, Jean (1965). Apple seeds and soda straws. illustrated by Don Bolognese. Nova Iorque: H.Z. Walck. LCCN 65013223 
• Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians ISBN 978-0-8131-0927-5
• Jean Ritchie's Swapping Song Book ISBN 978-0-8131-0973-2
• Jean Ritchie's Dulcimer People (1975)
• Ritchie, Jean, ed. (1953). A garland of mountain song; songs from the repertoire of the Ritchie family of Viper, Kentucky New ed. Nova Iorque: Broadcast Music. LCCN m53001732 

Referências

Ligações externas

• Live 1976 recording of Ritchie performing "Nottamun Town" from the Florida Folklife Collection (made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida)
• Videos on Woodsongs Archive
• 159: She sang and played her dulcimer as sole guest in 2000; 84 minutes.
• 450: Was as one of 3 guests in "Celebration of the Mountain Dulcimer" July 7, 2007; 94 minutes.

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