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“Bess Lomax Hawes, Musical Folklorist, Dies,” NPR’s All Things Considered (December 6th, 2009)
Bess Lomax Hawes, a folklorist, musician and teacher, has died. In the 1970s, as the head of the folk arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts, she increased federal funding for traditional music and folk arts across the United States. NPR’s David Gura has this remembrance.
