Ralph Rinzler (July 20, 1934 – July 2, 1994)[1] was an American mandolin player, folksinger, and the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian.[1] This festival was from the beginning and continues to be a major event for musicians, artistans, and craftsman from a broad variety of American culture, including African American, Native American, Appalachian, Southern, Western and other groups in the United States.[2]
He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2012.
^ ab"Ralph C. Rinzler, 59, Smithsonian Official And Folk-Life Expert", The New York Times, July 8, 1994
RalphRinzler (July 20, 1934 – July 2, 1994) was an American mandolin player, folksinger, and the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival...
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diversity of sound. The third team at CFCH manages and curates the RalphRinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. While the archive, filled with paper...
Watson took the advice of folk musicologist and Smithsonian curator RalphRinzler and began playing acoustic guitar and banjo exclusively. That move ignited...
Feliciano, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Eddie Mottau, Eric Andersen, John Herald, RalphRinzler, The Greenbriar Boys, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Carolyn Hester, Elizabeth...
the 1960s, when musicologists such as Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and RalphRinzler traveled to remote parts of the region in search of musicians unaffected...
soon replaced by Paul Prestopino, who, in turn was later replaced by RalphRinzler (mandolin) to form their most successful combination. The trio often...
released in 1963. The Watson Family is taken from field recordings by RalphRinzler, Eugene W. Earle, Archie Green, and Peter Siegel, done from 1960 to...
(1952), which included some of Ashley's early recordings. In 1960, RalphRinzler met Ashley at the Old Time Fiddler's Convention in Union Grove, North...
someone to continue the Folkways Records collection after him, Asch found RalphRinzler, who was then artistic director of the Smithsonian's annual Folklife...
Traditional Folk Recording Don DeVito, Harold Leventhal, Joe McEwen & RalphRinzler (producers) for Folkways - A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie...
Lost City Ramblers bandmates Mike Seeger and John Cohen and producer RalphRinzler traveled to remote sections of Appalachia to conduct field recordings...
Creole music makers = Musiciens cadiens et créoles. Elemore Morgan, RalphRinzler. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-170-9. OCLC 41355805...
Bad)" – 2:02 "I Can't Stand the Sight of You" – 2:23 Chart performance RalphRinzler, quoted in Erbsen 2003, p. 118. Josh Beckworth, Always Been a Rambler:...
Ralph Angus McQuarrie (/məˈkwɒriː/; June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012) was an American conceptual designer who worked in film and television. His career included...
public use by the State Archives of Florida Alan Jabbour's personal website International Arts and Artists Family story told by Alan Jabbour RalphRinzler...
at church events and other gatherings. In 1960, folk music producer RalphRinzler "rediscovered" Clarence Ashley at the Union Grove Fiddler's Convention...
Helen Carter Jones, her grandson David Carter Jones, Mike Seeger, and RalphRinzler, on May 18, 1975; National Public Radio recorded the performance as...
business files after his death in 1986. This acquisition was initiated by RalphRinzler of the Smithsonian before Asch's death and completed by the Asch Family...
September 23, 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2022. Rinzler 2013, pp. 582, 628. Rinzler 2013, p. 582. Rinzler 2013, p. 634. Pirani, Adam (July 1987). "Sebastian...
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