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Created by Bob Everhart as part of America’s bicentennial celebration in 1976, the National Old-Time Country Music Contest and Festival in Avoca, Iowa, is now the largest gathering of public domain music-makers and listeners in the United States. The festival’s purpose is to preserve the music that, in Everhart’s words, has been “in many instances altered so dramatically that it is no longer recognizable as a traditional American art form.” There are more than 30 competitions in such varied musical genres as ragtime, polka, Cajun, mountain, folk, cowboy, Western, yodeling, and gospel. Discuss
Source: The Free Dictionary