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By Wendy Weinberg
Special to the Rappahannock News
Alan Jabbour plays fiddle music of Appalachia and beyond and talks about the folk music and traditions of the old frontier when he opens the fall season at the Theatre at Washington on Gay Street on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 8 p.m.
While a graduate student at Duke University in the 1960s, Jabbour became interested in folk music and folklore and he made extensive trips throughout North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia to record instrumental folk music, folksong, and folklore on tape.
The collection Jabbour amassed at that time is now in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress. The materials he collected were particularly rich in traditional fiddle tunes from the Upper South.
Jabbour had begun his studies of the violin at the age of seven, but his growing interest in folk music prompted him to enter an informal process of apprenticeship as a young adult, playing the fiddle under the influence of new masters.
In particular, he learned the style and repertory of Henry Reed, a mas
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