Interior of the Albert Music Hall, Waretown, NJ. Courtesy of The Albert Music Hall
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Pine Barrens Medleys
Deep in the heart of the Pine Barrens of New
Jersey, isolated folks, charcoal burners, berry pickers, wood
cutters, and clammers gathered on Saturday night for generations to
sing their folk tales while a fiddler played, accompanied by a
guitarist. The whine of the piney ballads they created tell the
tales around the love of their work in the pines.
The Ridgeways, whose roots run deep in the pines, are
still playing the ballads their English ancestors brought to
America 300 years ago. Today, the Albert Music Hall in Waretown,
New Jersey, provides the home base for Saturday night fiddling,
strumming the old banjo, or picking a guitar to "The Sounds of the
Jersey Pines."
Project documentation comprises a page of text and a
photo.
Originally submitted by: Christopher H. Smith, Representative (4th District).
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