National Endowment for the Arts Statement on the Death of National Heritage Fellow Jesse McReynolds
June 26, 2023
June 26, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 26 (TNStalk) -- The National Endowment for the Arts issued the following agency statement:
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It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of Jesse McReynolds, recipient-along with Jim McReynolds-of a 1997 NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Jesse was born in 1929-two years after his brother Jim-in Coeburn, in the Clinch Mountai . . .
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It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of Jesse McReynolds, recipient-along with Jim McReynolds-of a 1997 NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Jesse was born in 1929-two years after his brother Jim-in Coeburn, in the Clinch Mountai . . .