| Shelt Carpenter | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | James Orval Shelton Carpenter |
| Born | February 7, 1862 Braxton County, Virginia, US |
| Died | April 28, 1937 |
| Genres | Old-time music |
| Instrument | Fiddle |
| Years active | c. 1880–1937 |
Shelton "Shelt" Carpenter (February 7, 1862, at Sutton, Virginia – April 28, 1937) was an outdoorsman, fiddle player, and mountain folklife philosopher of note. He is interred in the Braxton County Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Sutton, West Virginia.
References
- Gerald Milnes. 1999. Play of a Fiddle, Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 41-42.
- Braxton County, West Virginia Historical Society. 1974. "Shelt Carpenter's Tales Famous Throughout State" in Journal of the Braxton Historical Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3, 9.
- Michael Kline. 2006. "Carpenter Family" in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, ed. Charleston, W.Va.: The West Virginia Humanities Council, pp. 113-114; see also http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/976.
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