Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Iowa Friends of Old Time Music started as a faculty organization at the University of Iowa but in the early nineteen nineties, after years of not receiving funding from the University, the group became a non-profit enterprise. According to their bylaws, “The purpose of the Iowa Friends of Old Time Music is the promotion and preservation of the many traditions of old time music.” Harry Oster and Art Rosenbaum, the well-known folklorists, were primary organizers of the group. The main way they promoted and preserved the music was by having concerts, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. These featured such artists as Bill Monroe, Robin and Linda Williams, the Battlefield Band, the Boys of the Lough, David “Honeyboy” Williams, Mike Seeger, Liz Carrol, Elizabeth Cotton, The Red Clay Ramblers, John Hartford, Joe Heaney, Martin Carthy, Johnny Moynihan, Utah Phillips, and Claudia Schmidt among many others, including local acts like Harvest Home and Greg Brown. This writer remembers...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Iowa Friends of Old Time Music started as a faculty organization at the University of Iowa but in the early nineteen nineties, after years of not receiving funding from the University, the group became a non-profit enterprise. According to their bylaws, “The purpose of the Iowa Friends of Old Time Music is the promotion and preservation of the many traditions of old time music.” Harry Oster and Art Rosenbaum, the well-known folklorists, were primary organizers of the group. The main way they promoted and preserved the music was by having concerts, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. These featured such artists as Bill Monroe, Robin and Linda Williams, the Battlefield Band, the Boys of the Lough, David “Honeyboy” Williams, Mike Seeger, Liz Carrol, Elizabeth Cotton, The Red Clay Ramblers, John Hartford, Joe Heaney, Martin Carthy, Johnny Moynihan, Utah Phillips, and Claudia Schmidt among many others, including local acts like Harvest Home and Greg Brown. This writer remembers...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Iowa Friends of Old Time Music started as a faculty organization at the University of Iowa but in the early nineteen nineties, after years of not receiving funding from the University, the group became a non-profit enterprise. According to their bylaws, “The purpose of the Iowa Friends of Old Time Music is the promotion and preservation of the many traditions of old time music.” Harry Oster and Art Rosenbaum, the well-known folklorists, were primary organizers of the group. The main way they promoted and preserved the music was by having concerts, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. These featured such artists as Bill Monroe, Robin and Linda Williams, the Battlefield Band, the Boys of the Lough, David “Honeyboy” Williams, Mike Seeger, Liz Carrol, Elizabeth Cotton, The Red Clay Ramblers, John Hartford, Joe Heaney, Martin Carthy, Johnny Moynihan, Utah Phillips, and Claudia Schmidt among many others, including local acts like Harvest Home and Greg Brown. This writer remembers...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Iowa Friends of Old Time Music started as a faculty organization at the University of Iowa but in the early nineteen nineties, after years of not receiving funding from the University, the group became a non-profit enterprise. According to their bylaws, “The purpose of the Iowa Friends of Old Time Music is the promotion and preservation of the many traditions of old time music.” Harry Oster and Art Rosenbaum, the well-known folklorists, were primary organizers of the group. The main way they promoted and preserved the music was by having concerts, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. These featured such artists as Bill Monroe, Robin and Linda Williams, the Battlefield Band, the Boys of the Lough, David “Honeyboy” Williams, Mike Seeger, Liz Carrol, Elizabeth Cotton, The Red Clay Ramblers, John Hartford, Joe Heaney, Martin Carthy, Johnny Moynihan, Utah Phillips, and Claudia Schmidt among many others, including local acts like Harvest Home and Greg Brown. This writer remembers...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Iowa Friends of Old Time Music started as a faculty organization at the University of Iowa but in the early nineteen nineties, after years of not receiving funding from the University, the group became a non-profit enterprise. According to their bylaws, “The purpose of the Iowa Friends of Old Time Music is the promotion and preservation of the many traditions of old time music.” Harry Oster and Art Rosenbaum, the well-known folklorists, were primary organizers of the group. The main way they promoted and preserved the music was by having concerts, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. These featured such artists as Bill Monroe, Robin and Linda Williams, the Battlefield Band, the Boys of the Lough, David “Honeyboy” Williams, Mike Seeger, Liz Carrol, Elizabeth Cotton, The Red Clay Ramblers, John Hartford, Joe Heaney, Martin Carthy, Johnny Moynihan, Utah Phillips, and Claudia Schmidt among many others, including local acts like Harvest Home and Greg Brown. This writer remembers...