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Dwight Diller
Called “The
Guardian of Traditional West Virginia Music” by Sing Out! magazine
(summer,'97), Dwight is heir to central West Virginia's old time music
heritage. His ancestors date back
over two centuries in the region around Pocahontas county where Dwight grew
up steeped in the mountain culture.
With his early interest in the old mountain stories and music, Dwight
was led to seek out all the old timers. With a banjo and recorder in hand, he
went on the search for what was left of the 19th century before it completely
died out. What turned up was
important enough to be released by the Library of Congress, Augusta Heritage
Center, and Rounder Records. Dwight has now been playing for over three
decades and has been teaching old time music for almost that same length of
time. In the past decade he has held workshops and “camps” from California to
England, Massachusetts to Florida to Illinois, as well as his home area, the
mountains of east-central West Virginia.
From Dwight Diller’s Website
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