BROWN-HUDSON FOLKLORE AWARDS

The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award was established in 1970 to honor two distinguished folklorists and officers of the North Carolina Folklore Society, Frank C. Brown of Duke University and Arthur Palmer Hudson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both had served as the Society's Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Brown from 1913 to 1944 and Dr. Hudson from 1945 to 1966. Dr. Hudson was also the founder and editor until 1966 of North Carolina Folklore.

The North Carolina Folklore Society presents the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award to persons who have in special ways contributed to the appreciation, continuation, or study of North Carolina folk traditions.

To nominate a person for the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award, submit a completed nomination form in Word or PDF form and supporting materials to Christine A. Whittington, James Addison Jones Library, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC 27401, or email nominations to cwhittington@gborocollege.edu.

AWARD RECIPIENTS

1970

1971

Paul Green
Playwright, teacher, and collector of local tales

George P. Wilson
Professor and folklorist

1972

Artus Monroe Moser
Collector, folk musician, and singer

Mary Myrtle Cornwell
Promoter of folk crafts

Joseph D. Clark
Folklorist and professor

1973

Bertha Hodges Cook
Maker of knotted bedspreads and storyteller

Bernice Kelly Harris
Journalist, playwright, and collector of folklore

Virgil L. Sturgill
Performer and collector of mountain music

1974

W. Amos Abrams
Professor, editor, and collector of folklore

Edd and Nettie Presnell
Dulcimer makers and wood carvers

Benjamin E. Washburn
Writer, historian, and folklore collector

1975

Richard Walser
Writer, editor, and folklorist

Cratis D. Williams
Teacher, writer, and performer

Doc and Merle Watson
Folk singers and musicians

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1976

Ruth Jewell
Teacher and promoter of folk dancing

F. Roy Johnson
Writer and publisher of folklore books

John Parris
Journalist and collector of folklore

1977

Guy Owen
Novelist and poet, teacher, editor, and folklorist

Kay Wilkins
Teacher and promoter of folk dance

James and Lessie York
Performers and collectors of folk music

1978

Grayden and M.C. Paul
Collectors and interpreters of folklife

Leona Trantham Hayes
Organizer of folk festivals and promoter of folk dance

Herman and Mabel Estes
Folk craftspeople and festival organizers

1979

Dorothy Cole Auman
Folk potter and scholar of pottery traditions

Thad Stem, Jr.
Writer and folklorist

Rogers V. Whitener
Writer, teacher, and folklorist

1980

Daniel Watkins Patterson
Teacher, writer, and folklorist

Burlon B. Craig
Folk potter

Stanley Hicks
Instrument maker, storyteller, folk musician, and dancer

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1981

Thomas Jefferson Jarrell
Folk fiddler and tradition bearer

Mary Mintz, Richard Lebovitz, and Elizabeth Roberson and Their Students
Teachers, writers, and collectors of folklore

1982

Etta Baker and Cora Phillips
Folk musicians

Ovid Williams
Writer and teacher

Holger Olof Nygard
Writer, teacher, and folk ballad scholar

1983

Ora Watson
Quilter

Willard Watson
Toymaker and storyteller

Joseph Thomas Wilson
Festival organizer and administrator

1984

Lillie Lee
Quiltmaker

Jennie Burnett
Quiltmaker

Emma Dupree
Practicioner of folk medicine and herbalist

F. Borden Mace
Publisher and promoter of folklore study

1985

Bertie Caudill Dickens
Traditional banjo player

Arthur James Wooten
Traditional mountain fiddler

Ray Hicks
Storyteller

George Mahon Holt
Festival organizer and public programs administrator

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1986

Adolph Dial
Lumbee scholar, tradition bearer, and teacher

Betty Dupree
Folk arts promoter and crafts guild director

1987

Bertha Mangum Landis
Church singer and mother of a family gospel tradition

Lauchlin Shaw
Traditional fiddler and promoter of oldtime music gatherings

Thomas Burt
Blues guitarist

Leonidas Judd Betts, Jr.
Folklorist, editor, and family tradition bearer

1988

The Badgett Sisters--Celester Sellars, Connie Steadman, and Cleonia Graves
Singers of spirituals and Jubilee gospel, family tradition bearers

Eva Wolfe
Maker of traditional Cherokee baskets

Ernest East
Traditional fiddler and stringband leader

Guy Benton Johnson
Scholar, teacher, and collector of folksongs

Thomas McGowan
Folklorist, journal editor, and Society Secretary-Treasurer

1989

Julian Guthrie
Boat builder and oral historian
Richard "Big Boy" Henry
Blues singer and musician

David Stick
Regional historian and writer

1990

Anne Locher Warner
Folksong collector and family tradition bearer

David A. Sturgill
Mountain banjo player and instrument maker

Odell Thompson
African American folk banjo player

Joe Thompson
African-American folk guitarist and fiddler

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1991

Nell Cole Graves
Traditional potter

Mollie Blankenship
Advocate of folk arts and community leader

Ralph Epperson
Supporter of regional music

Charles G. Zug, III
Scholar, folklorist, and teacher

1992

Otho Willard
Oldtime fiddler and stringband leader

George Higgs
Blues musician and singer

Dorothy Spruill Redford
Writer, homecoming organizer, and administrator

Karen Baldwin
Folklorist, writer, and teacher

1993

Mattye Reed
Founder of N.C. A & T University's African Heritage Center

Phramaha Somsak Sambimb
Buddhist monk, community leader, and supporter of Asian-American folk arts

George and Donnis SerVance
Carvers of dancing dolls

David E. Whisnant
Writer and scholar

1994

Archie Green
Folklorist, social activist, and teacher

Bessie Eldreth
Traditional singer and storyteller

Julie Jarrell Lyons
Family tradition bearer, dancer, and storyteller

Glenn Douglas Hinson
Folklorist, festival organizer, and teacher

1995

Bobby McMillon
Folk Artist, tradition Bearer, and folklorist

Tommy Thompson
Collector of folksongs, composer, and banjo player

Tom Davenport
Maker of folklore films and recreator of tales

Beverly Bush Patterson
Folklorist, scholar, and public administrator

1996

James Allen Rose
Model boat builder and musician

Michael Alford
Traditional boats scholar and museum curator

Margaret Martin
Folk artist in the schools and musician

Wayne Martin
Fiddler, music scholar, and public programs administrator

1997

Orville Hicks
Storyteller

Ereneida Duarte de Ocampo
Mexican-American textile artist

Nazaria Muñoz Joaquín de Hernandez
Mexican-American textile artist

Trudier Harris
Folklorist, teacher, and scholar

1998

Sheila Kay Adams
Ballad singer and storyteller

Lula Belle and Glenn Bolick
Traditional potters and musicians

Dwaine C. Coley
Arts center director and promoter of folk arts

1999

Bishop "Dreddy" Manning
Sacred music singer and pastor

Walter and Ray Davenport
Traditional fishermen

Bland Simpson
Regional writer

2000

Emmet Jones
Wheelwright

Sally Peterson
Folklorist and social activist

Barry and Alan Huffman
Crafts collectors and scholars

2001

Freeman Owle
Cherokee storyteller and carver

Betty Smith
Traditional musician and folklorist

2002

Jim Scanarelli
Fiddler, oldtime music producer, and cartoonist

2003

Fred Olson
Folk guitarist

Mary Anne McDonald
Folklorist and social activist

2004

Connie Mason
Folk musician and songwriter, museum curator

2005

Eugenia Cece Conway
Folklorist, filmmaker, and festival organizer

Paul Brown
Folk music scholar and presenter, radio program organizer and writer

2006

Gary Carden
Folklorist, playwright, and storyteller

2006

Clifford Glenn
Dulcimer and Banjo maker

David Holt
Musician, storyteller and historian

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