Dr. Alan Jabbour, founding director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, will present a lecture at Arkansas State University on Friday, March 13, at 3:30 p.m., in the ASU Museum ...

COLUMBIA — Folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Jabbour walked into an almost-full room of MU's Reynolds Journalism Institute with banjoist Ken Perlman, a wine bottle sticking out of Jabbour's fiddle ...

When the Hollow Rock String Band’s 1968 album Traditional Dance Tunes was re-released on CD in 1997, Jim Watson gave it a spin. But the first thing to cross his mind was not the music. It was fiddler ...

LITTLE WASHINGTON – Fiddler Alan Jabbour and banjo player Ken Perlman celebrated the sounds of Appalachia Saturday night with an enchanting program of folk music in this picturesque mountain town. The ...

Musician and Folklorist Alan Jabbour and long-time friend Bertram Levy will present the first performance of the Transylvania County Arts Council's 2004 Southern Heritage Performing Arts Series, at 7 ...

On Saturday, May 31, the Myrna Loy Center offers a rare treat for old-time fiddle music lovers: Alan Jabbour, folklorist and lifelong fiddler, will perform in concert with guitarist and fiddler Mike ...

It's unlikely that the fellow who first scratched out the jaunty strains of Old Joe Clark on his fiddle back in the late 1800s ever thought too much about the tune. To him, its significance probably ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I emailed Alan Jabbour, retired director of the American Folklife Center, who wrote ...

It’s been a month for savoring Central Florida’s newfound status as an “epicenter” in the exploration of folk art. That’s how Alan Jabbour describes the flurry of exhibitions, lectures and symposia ...