Title: W.C. Handy Music Festival collection, 1948-2003
Arrangement
The physical archival collection contains 28 boxes. Select materials from the W.C. Handy Collection, including photographs, festival posters, signed sheet music, and news articles, are digitized and available online at UNA's digital archival repository, Digital Commons. Documents are available at this link
https://roar.una.edu/handy_documents/, while photographs and posters are available here
https://roar.una.edu/handy_images/.
Abstract
The WC Handy Music Festival is held in Florence, Alabama every year to honor Handy's musical achievements. The Music Preservation Society of Alabama Shoals created this week-long festival in 1982.
For more information on William Christopher Handy's impact on music and the Shoals, Alabama visit this LibGuide from Collier Library: https://libguides.una.edu/wchandy.
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