Alan Jabbour (USA)
Alan Jabbour fell in love with old-time fiddle
music as a graduate student at Duke University.
During that period, he documented and
apprenticed with legendary oldtime fiddlers like Henry Reed and
Tommy Jarrell.
Alan’s albums as the fiddler for the
Hollow Rock String Band became benchmarks of the
1960s oldtime music revival.
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1968, he taught
English, folklore and ethnomusicology at UCLA. A year later, he
moved to Washington to head the Archive of Folk Song at the Library
of Congress.
In 1976, Alan became the founding director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1999. Since retiring, Alan has turned enthusiastically to a life of writing, consulting, lecturing, and playing the fiddle.
