The Shamrock: The Emblem of Ireland, 1899.
Sheet music published by Joseph Flanner, Milwaukee. Music by Louie Maurice and lyrics by Frank Abbott.
via: Wisconsin Sheet Music Database, Mills Music Library, UW-Madison
Source: digital.library.wisc.edu
Iva Rindlisbacher, Helene Stratman-Thomas, and Lois Rindlisbacher at Swiss bells, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 1941.
Helene Stratman-Thomas headed the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, an effort by the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin to document traditional music across the state in the 1940s.
listen: the Rindlisbacher family performs “Emmentalerlied” on the Swiss bells
read more: Erika Janik, “Helene Stratman-Thomas: Wisconsin Songcatcher,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 94:2 (2010)
via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Historical Society and Mills Music Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Source: digital.library.wisc.edu
Lily Richmond, Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, 1946.
Born in Missouri in 1862, Richmond came to Wisconsin as a young child with her parents, who were freed slaves. Photograph by Helene Stratman-Thomas, who recorded Richmond singing African-American spirituals for the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Library of Congress.
listen: Lily Richmond singing “One More River.”
read more: “Pleasant Ridge: A refuge for former slaves,” Wisconsin Historical Society. Pleasant Ridge, a village near present-day Beetown in southwest Wisconsin, was settled by freed slaves who came to Wisconsin beginning in 1848.
via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Historical Society by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Source: digital.library.wisc.edu
Charles K. Harris, “Just One Kiss,” Milwaukee, 1900.
Music and lyrics by Charles Kassell Harris.
via: Wisconsin Sheet Music Database, Mills Music Library, UW-Madison by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Source: digital.library.wisc.edu
American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, 1936.
This photo is #3 of our top 12 most-liked and most-reblogged posts of the year.
Source: content.mpl.org
Hamilton Manufacturing Company band, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, 1923.
Continuing the countdown of our top 12 posts of 2012. Coming in at #8: this portrait of the brass and wind ensemble sponsored by the Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two Rivers. Photo by Hubert Wentorf.
via: Two Rivers History: Hubert R. Wentorf Photo Collection and Fisher-Hamilton Industries Product Catalogs, Lester Public Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Source: digital.library.wisc.edu
Listen: "He's the Lily of the Valley," Gymanfa Ganu in Pickett, Wisconsin, 1940.
As mentioned in the previous post, descendants of Welsh migrants to Wisconsin have gathered at the Peniel Chapel every year since the early 20th century for Gymanfa Ganu—a musical event featuring hymns sung in four-part harmony. In 1940, Helene Stratman-Thomas and Robert F. Draves recorded the congregation as part of the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Library of Congress.
via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection 1937-1946, Mills Music Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Gymanfa Ganu singers at Peniel Chapel, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
In August, the Peniel Chapel near Pickett, Wisconsin will host its 90th annual Gymanfa Ganu—a traditional Welsh festival of sacred choral music sung in four-part harmony. The chapel itself was constructed in 1856. Photographs by Michael Cooney, 2010.
via: Pioneer Churches Collection, Oshkosh Public Library
read more: Welsh Gymanfa Ganu Association of Wisconsin
Source: oshkoshpub.cdmhost.com
Folklorist Helene Stratman-Thomas with members of the Yuba Bohemian Band, Yuba, Wisconsin, 1946.
via: Wisconsin Historical Images WHi-25376, Wisconsin Historical Society
listen: The Yuba Bohemian Band performs “Popelka Polka,” from the Wisconsin Folksong Collection by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Listen: "Little Brown Bulls" as sung by Robert Walker, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1941.
This folk ballad describes a contest in a northwoods Wisconsin logging camp between a pair of “big spotted steers” and two “little brown bulls” to determine which team could haul or “skid” the most timber in a single day. The Wisconsin Folksong Collection includes a dozen recordings of this song as sung by former lumberjacks; each singer places the event in a different location. In Walker’s version, the contest takes place in a logging camp on the Wolf River.
via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection 1937-1946, Mills Music Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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