Bobby McMillon

Bobby McMillon (born 20 December 1951) is an American traditional ballad singer, musician, and storyteller living in Lenoir, N.C, and a 2000 recipient of the North Carolina Heritage Award.

Career

[1] He has performed throughout North Carolina as well as at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the A.P. Carter Memorial Festival, the Festival for the Eno, and national storytelling conferences. For more than a decade, McMillon has worked with public schools through the Artist in the Schools and Visiting Artist programs.[2]

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Notes

  1. Patterson, Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins), 1928-. A Tree Accurst : Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver. Chapel Hill, NC :University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Print.
  2. "Bobby McMillon, Ballad singer, Storyteller, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge National Heritage Area". www.blueridgeheritage.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  3. Bobby McMillon Collection (2007), Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/McMillon,Bobby.html
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