The #BlueRidgeNationalHeritageArea Partnership & #BlueRidgeMusicTrials of NC sent out a great Holiday e-mail we thought wed share with you all. A YouTube video of well known fiddle player Tommy Jarrell and friends playing Breaking Up Christmas. Tommy was a fiddler, banjo player, and singer from the Mount Airy region of North Carolinas Appalachian Mountains. He was awarded the National Endowment For the Arts (NEA) National Folk Heritage Award in 1982. We here at The Blue Ridge Music Center hope you enjoy the video? And we wish you a very Happy Holiday Season! https://youtube/watch?v=8fGg2gUgkT0 blueridgemusicnc/ What is Breaking Up Christmas? This old Christmas party tradition originated in the 1920s and comes from the areas of Northwest North Carolina in Surry County and nearby Southwest Virginia. Before the days of television and electricity, people would gather for the twelve days between Christmas and January 6 (Old Christmas Day,) for socializing, food, dancing, and old-time string music. The event would move from house to house and the party would go on past midnight. Thus the people broke up Christmas into many days of joy.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:28:38 +0000
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