PLEASE COME JOIN US AS
SARAH JANE NELSON
autographs, discusses, and presents her book:
BALLAD HUNTING WITH MAX HUNTER
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18TH AT 1PM
THE TOADSTOOL BOOKSHOP
12 DEPOT SQ
PETERBOROUGH, NH 03458
We hope you will join us as author and musical performer Sarah Jane Nelson presents and shares her latest book, “Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter”. Late one night in August of 2016 she was combing the internet for ‘new’ old songs for an upcoming concert when a friend suggested Sarah Jane look at the Max Hunter Folksong Collection. She stayed up well past midnight listening to the digitized recordings of sources and wondering just who this Max Hunter was. How was it that a mid-century traveling salesman from Missouri managed to record such a vast number of singers with such a variety of songs? What effort did this entail? What motivated him to do this work, which Hunter himself always claimed was mostly a hobby? Illuminating a unique and captivating piece of American history, we hope you will join us for this special event.
