Exhibit uncovers folk culture of Michigan through music

The Upper Peninsula has been home to folk music of different stripes for a very long time, as recordings from the late 1930s of Michigan folk musicians can attest in a new exhibit downstate.

Excerpt: The Great Lakes Folk Festival in East Lansing on Sunday will be the first stop of a traveling exhibit and performances celebrating the 75th anniversary of what was supposed to be a three-month song collecting tour through the Upper Midwest.

It commemorates a trip that began in Detroit on Aug. 1, 1938, by 23-year-old Alan Lomax, who carried a Presto instantaneous disc recorder and movie camera to gather folk music from the Upper Midwest, according to the Lansing State Journal.

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Source: Miami Herald