Earl McElreath Buncombe County NC 1993

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Earl C. McElreath was born in Leicester in Buncombe County, North Carolina in 1936. He grew up in a family of dancers, the most well known being Bill McElreath (1904–1974), who was a perennial favorite at Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville. Earl learned to dance by going to dances and watching the other dancers. He differentiates his freestyle “buckdancing,” which is based on a forward and back sliding motion, with his heels down, from the older style, in which dancers stayed up on the balls of their feet. • Music: Phil Jamison (banjo), Lawrence Dillingham (guitar), George Buckner (banjo) • Recorded: Candler, NC (June 12, 1993) • For more about this Folklife Documentary Project, see “WNC Buckdancers, Flatfooters, and Charleston Dancers (1993)” at: http://www.philjamison.com/ • Additional video with an extended interview and more dancing is available at the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina. See: http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UN... • This project was made possible by sabbatical funding from Warren Wilson College.

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