FROM KOMU 8–HALLSVILLE FIDDLE FESTIVAL KEEPS MISSOURI TRADITIONS ALIVE
At the link, find a KOMU 8 news story that aired March 10, 2024, as well as a longer narrative version of the story.
Thanks to Mizzou’s “Missouri Method” of teaching journalism, we were pleased to participate in an interview by Sophomore Briana Iordan. Briana, Bishop Lamm, and other members of their team were assigned to research Hallsville, Mo. this semester for class. Congratulations to them for telling the story of the Hallsville Dance, and for having that story aired on our NBC affiliate.
Many of our readers will know about the weekly potluck, jam, and dance. Some of readers even participate. This Missouri School of Journalism team, according to FB comments, even introduced some Hallsville residents to something new to them!
“From left, Tim Murray, Kathy Gordon, David Cavins and Larry Francis play through a fiddle tune during the Hallsville jam session Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. The Hallsville fiddle jam sessions are ‘circle jams,’ where every player down the circle suggests a tune, and the tune is played until a player cues its end.” Photo courtesy KOMU by Bishop Lamm