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'Bullfrog Jumped' stops in Grove Hill with folksongs by Laurie Bailey Byron Arnold, a music professor at the University of Alabama, traveled the state in the summers of 1945 through 1947 recording hundreds of folk songs. In 2006, the Alabama Folklife Association released 42 of the songs on a CD entitled "Bullfrog Jumped." Now storyteller Wanda Johnson and CD producer Joyce Cauthen are bringing the songs to children in the communities where they were first recorded. The Bullfrog Jumped Tour will stop at Grove Hill Elementary School Thursday, Jan. 17. In Grove Hill Byron Arnold found many great songs, especially those shared by the Carleton family. Laurie Cater Carleton, a long-time teacher at Clarke County High School and wife of the publisher of The Clarke County Democrat, sang songs she learned from older relatives who had sung them in Civil War days. Her young daughter Annie Laurie Carleton contributed a song as well as their babysitter, Mary Chapman Courinton. Laurie Carleton Bailey, now of Mobile, will be a featured artist at the program. She will sing a song and talk about making the recordings in 1947.
For information about Bullfrog Jumped, visit www.alabamafolklife.org or call Joyce Cauthen, 205-822-0505.
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