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Photo postcard featuring Shorty Ginn, the “One-Man, Ten-Piece Band,” Decatur, Alabama, c. 1960s. A native of Belmont, Mississippi, Ginn performed in and out of Alabama and Mississippi from the 1940s into at least the 1960s. By 1949, he had…

Funeral program for fife player Otha Turner (1908-2003) and drummer Bernice Turner Pratcher (1954-2003), Como, Mississippi. Both father and daughter, bearers of the family's distinctive fife and drum tradition, died on February 27, 2003.

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Funeral program for Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006): blues and gospel singer, songwriter, drummer, and guitarist, and a bearer of north Mississippi's fife and drum tradition, Senatobia, Mississippi.

Program provided by Adam Lore.