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2 unusual facts about Maud Karpeles


Maud Karpeles

In 1892 a women's settlement had been created in Cumberland Road, Canning Town the purpose of which was to enable the poorest girls to take part in sport and cultural activities.

Once the folk singer Phil Tanner was discovered in Gower, Wales, Karpeles made sure that he was recorded.


Music of Newfoundland and Labrador

Radio programs such as Irene B. Mellon and The Big Six, the television shows All Around The Circle (1964) and Ryan's Fancy, collections such as Gerald S. Doyle's Old Time Songs and Poetry of Newfoundland, musicians including accordionists Ray Walsh, Wilf Doyle, Omar Blondahl, John White and the McNulty Family, and scholars including Maud Karpeles also contributed to the preservation of Newfoundland and Labrador music.

Wallin Family

In the latter years of World War I, British folklorist Cecil Sharp and his assistant Maud Karpeles traveled extensively across Central and Southern Appalachia in hopes of finding British ballads that had been passed down to the inhabitants of the more remote parts of the region from their British and Scottish ancestors.


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