Maryland Traditions Panel Discussion

Join representatives of Maryland's only statewide program to sustain living traditions to discuss Maryland's folk life. Panelists will include:

 Cliff Murphy, co-director of Maryland Traditions and an expert on mountain music in Cecil County

Elaine Eff, co-director of Maryland Traditions, and folklorist-in-residence at UMBC

Kara Rogers Thomas, folklorist and assistant professor of sociology at Frostburg State University, who can discuss the contribution of Amish and Mennonite communities to regional culture

Cindy Byrd, curator of the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, who specializes in hunters and trappers on the lower Eastern Shore

Mark Puryear, curator of the rhythm and blues program of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Lafayette Gilchrist, Maryland Traditions Master and Apprentice Award Recipient and Jazz Pianist

4:00 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery