Highland Minstrels

Highland Minstrels

Log cabins

Musical groups

Musicians

Singers

This 1965 photograph, taken by Asheville Citizen-Times photographer Ewart McKinley Ball, Jr. (1918-1966), shows the Highland Minstrels performing in Hubert Hayes Memorial Log Cabin. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University.

Ball, Ewart M. (Ewart McKinley), Jr., 1918-1966

Hubert Hayes Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1965-12-11

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

8" x 10"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia