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Linda Kelly Armour calls "Wabash Cannonball" based on her memories of accompanying her parents, Hilt & Stella Kelly, to innumerable square dances as she was growing up.
On April 10 my son and I ventured north to Schuylerville, east of Saratoga Springs, for a memorial program dedicated to Hilt Kelly and to another fiddler who had died. Members of Hilt's family were present - son Lynn and daughter Linda, and Linda's husband Jim. Listen tonight, April 19, on WIOX 91.3 FM or wioxradio.org at 7 p.m. to hear to recordings that go with these photos. Wonderful round and square dancing began and ended the program which included solemn tributes to both fiddlers as well as music from the Adirondack Fiddlers. There were several callers from the club and Hilt's daughter, Linda Kelly Armour, pleased everyone with a rendition of "Wabash Cannonball."
--Ginny Scheer, Folklorist.
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| Dancers at the Adirondack Fiddlers tribute to Hilt Kelly, dancing to Ron Bailey's "Mountain Girl" |
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