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Jean Ritchie - iconic folksinger and dulcimer player from Kentucky - received in 1952 a Fulbright Scholarship enabling her to travel to the British Isles to trace the origin of her Kentucky versions ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jean Ritchie, the Kentucky-born folksinger who brought the centuries-old ballads she grew up with to a wide audience from the 1950s onward, died Monday evening. She was 92. Ritchie ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Oh, and in 1996 she was featured in the biographical documentary film Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie ...