Urban Pioneers interview with Chris Montague, August 14,2007

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Title Urban Pioneers interview with Chris Montague, August 14,2007
Alternative Title Polly Stewart Oral History Project: Interview with Chris Montague
Links to Media https://stream.lib.utah.edu/index.php?c=portable_details&id=9665
Creator Montague, Chris, 1948- ; Stewart, Polly, 1943-2013
Contributor Bateman, Jennifer; Green, Laura Marcus
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-08-14
Date Digital 2013-06-21
Temporal Coverage August 14, 2007
Description Recording of an interview by Polly Stewart with Chris Montague, a participant in the Utah folk music scene of the 1960s. Jennifer Bott [now Bateman] served as sound engineer. Transcript by Laura R. Marcus [now Green]. One of the interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project, 2004-2011
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject Montague, Chris, 1948- --Interviews; Folk singers--Utah--Interviews; Musicians--Utah--Interviews; Folk music--Utah
Keywords Chris Montague; Folk revival; Urban Pioneers; Oral history; Interviews
Table of Contents 1. General background; 2. Becoming interested in music/learning to play guitar; 3. Discovering the banjo/getting into bluegrass music; 4. High school bands, the Wind River Boys/playing in the Weiser Fiddle Contest; 5. Playing with Hal Cannon and Tom Carter, Uncle Lumpy; 6. Talking about the mindset required in playing and relationship to the music Playing music in college/forming bluegrass fusion band Puddle City in Portland, Oregon; 7. Dissolution of Puddle City/staying in touch with other band members Coming back to Salt Lake City/meeting and playing music with wife, Liz; 8. Talking about ways of "reading" music-sight-reading, tablature, by ear/music for banjo/learning, playing, and jamming styles; 9. Playing with Uncle Lumpy for Utah Urban Pioneers Concert Playing music with wife Liz and others/winding up interview; 10. Talking about music in the family
Type Sound
Genre Sound recordings
Format application/pdf
Extent 40 minutes, 44 seconds
Language eng
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Is Part of The 30 interview recordings that Polly Stewart and Jennifer Bott conducted for the Utah Folk Music Revival Oral History Project
ARK ark:/87278/s6kh166h
Setname uu_utfolklore
ID 716355
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kh166h