The conference fee is $10 per day ($5 students and seniors) and $30 (general admission) for the Lomax Tribute Concert.

To register for the festival and to purchase tickets for the Lomax Tribute concert, please call Continuing Education and Public Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center, 212-817-8215. Tickets for the concert can also be purchased through City Lore, 212-529-1955.

Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Levenson Recital Hall
Click here for directions to ISAM at Brooklyn College.

12:00-1:30 pm
The Seeger/Lomax Connection:
A Concert with Mike Seeger
with an introduction by Ray Allen
Call 718-951-5655 for information

The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Proshansky Auditorium
365 5th Avenue (at 34th St.)
212/817-8215

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Documenting the Folk I
The Southern field trips & Haiti
Nolan Porterfield, Gage Averill, David Evans, Manu El Bey, and Stetson Kennedy

1:00 - 3:00 pm
Promoting the Folk
The Early Folk Music Revival
Irwin Silber, Kip Lornell, Ed Cray, Elijah Wald, and Henrietta Yurchenco

3:15 - 4:45 pm
Documenting the Folk II
Collecting Folk Music in Europe and the Caribbean
Judith R. Cohen, Goffredo Plastino, Matthew Barton, and Dominique Cyrille

5:00 pm
Alan Lomax Song Swap & Reminiscence Session
The New Lost City Ramblers & Guy Carawan, Barbara Dane, Bess Lomax Hawes,
and friends

6:30 pm
Reception/Book Launch Party
for Alan Lomax: Selected Writings 1934-1997, edited by Ronald Cohen. Click here for more information (Routledge Press)

Concert: Cooper Union Great Hall
Foundation Building
7 E. 7th St. (at 3rd Ave.) 212/353-4195
Subway: #6 to Astor Place

Panels: American Indian Community House
404 Lafayette, 8th Floor
212/598-0100
Subway: #6 to Astor Place

11:00 am - 12:45 pm American Indian Community House
Preserving and Disseminating the Lomax Recordings
Peggy Bulger, Bill Nowlin, Barbara L. Hampton

12:00 - 1:30 pm American Indian Community House
I was Recorded by Alan Lomax
with David "Honey Boy" Edwards, Jean Ritchie, Spencer Moore, and Solomon Carey

3:00 - 3:45 pm: Keynote Address American Indian Community House
American Routes: The Lomax Legacy on the Air
Nick Spitzer of Public Radio International

4:00 - 5:45 pm American Indian Community House
Folk Music as Poetry: The Lomax Perspective
Mike Seeger, Hal Cannon, Worth Long, Les Slater, and Raoul Abdul

8:00 pm Cooper Union Great Hall
Lomax Tribute Concert
Tickets: $30
Arlo Guthrie, The New Lost City Ramblers, Pete Seeger, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Jean Ritchie, Odetta

Noon
Special tour of the Lomax Archives
call 212-268-4623 for reservations

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & SCHEDULE UPDATES CONTACT

ISAM, Brooklyn College
718-951-5655
depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam

CUNY Graduate Center
212-817-8215
web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp

City Lore and People's Poetry
212-529-1955
www.peoplespoetry.org

Alan Lomax Archive
212-268-4623
www.alan-lomax.com

An Alan Lomax Tribute is sponsored by:
The Institute for Studies in American Music & the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College CUNY
Ph.D./D.M.A in Music & Continuing Education and Public Programs at the Graduate Center, CUNY
City Lore, Poets House, and the People's Poetry Gathering
Alan Lomax Archive/Association for Cultural Equity

An Alan Lomax Tribute is made possible by major grants from the Baisley Powell Elebash Endowment, The Folk Alliance, and the New York Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Odyssey Productions, Inc., the Cerf Foundation, Routledge Press, and Rounder Records.

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