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Glen Adams, Pipe Major | Original SC

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Glen Adams, Pipe Major | Original SC
Meet the talented bagpipe player and leader of the Palmetto Pipes and Drums band. Founded in 1996, the band has flourished, showcasing their musical talent and dedication. They have achieved numerous...
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Dizzy Gillespie, Part 3
Episode 103
When the opportunity came for a young Dizzy Gillespie to leave Cheraw, he took it. Dizzy moved to Laurinburg, North Carolina, where he went to school at the Laurinburg Institute. While in Laurinburg...
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Dizzy Gillespie, Part 2
Episode 102
Dizzy Gillespie was awarded the coveted Handel Medal, which is New York City’s most prestigious arts award. Gillespie is also part of the Newport Jazz Festival Program, and introduced friends and...
Black Codes | South Carolina Public Radio Brown, James | South Carolina Public Radio

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Brown, James | South Carolina Public Radio
"B" is for Brown, James (1933-2006). Musician. Born in Barnwell County, Brown began his career in Augusta in the 1950s when he formed the Flames—the first of a series of backing bands that would...
Mac Arnold Photos | Digital Traditions

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Mac Arnold Photos | Digital Traditions
Born and raised on a sharecroppers’ farm in Pelzer, South Carolina and one of thirteen children, Arnold grew up in a world where blues music did not exist, at least to his devoutly religious parents...
Drink Small Photos | Digital Traditions

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Drink Small Photos | Digital Traditions
Few vernacular art forms have made as impressive a mark on American culture as the Blues. From the expressive experiences of African-American life, skilled musicians fashioned a distinctive idiom that...
Pappy Sherrill Photos

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Pappy Sherrill Photos
Homer Lee "Pappy" Sherrill played his first radio show in 1928. In the 1930s, long before multi-million dollar contracts and lucrative endorsement deals, Sherrill traveled the “Kerosene Circuit.”...
Al Wall Photos | Digital Traditions

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Al Wall Photos | Digital Traditions
Wall began playing hillbilly and “old-time” music before it was dubbed bluegrass. He was one of eleven children in a family he described as not very musically oriented. As a teen, he cut his teeth...
David Drake a.k.a “Dave the Potter” | S.C. Hall of Fame William "Singing Billy" Walker | S.C. Hall of Fame

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William "Singing Billy" Walker | S.C. Hall of Fame
"Amazing Grace: The Story of William "Singing Billy" Walker is about the Spartanburg resident, religious music composer and publisher. Walker became famous in the mid 1800's for changing the way...