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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
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Almanac Singers
Almanac Singers
band
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Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger
American singer
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Bessie Jones
Bessie Jones
American folk musician and gospel singer
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Frank Hamilton
Frank Hamilton
American musician
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Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
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Lead Belly
Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
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Rosalie Sorrels
Rosalie Sorrels
American singer-songwriter
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Lee Hays
Lee Hays
American folk singer and songwriter
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Hobart Smith
Hobart Smith
American musician
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Guy Carawan
Guy Carawan
American musician and musicologist
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Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie
American folk singer
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Violeta Parra
Violeta Parra
Chilean musician and folklorist (1917-1967)
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Vera Hall
Vera Hall
American folk singer
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Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
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Son House
Son House
American blues singer and guitarist
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Gabriel Brown
Gabriel Brown
American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist
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The Dillards
The Dillards
American bluegrass band
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Algia Mae Hinton
Algia Mae Hinton
musician
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Hally Wood
Hally Wood
American singer
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Butch Baldassari
Butch Baldassari
American mandolinist
Bess Lomax Hawes
American folk musician and folklorist

Bess Lomax Hawes

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American folk musician and folklorist
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Awards Received
National Medal of Arts

Bess Lomax Hawes (January 21, 1921 – November 27, 2009) was an American folk musician, folklorist, and researcher. She was the daughter of John Avery Lomax and Bess Bauman-Brown Lomax, and the sister of Alan Lomax and John Lomax Jr.