Scary Stories and Ballads with Sheila Kay Adams

Get in the Halloween mood with scary stories and ballads from NEA National Heritage Fellow Sheila Kay Adams. Adams is the seventh-generation bearer of her family’s 200-year-old ballad-singing tradition. Her teachers were her great-aunt Dellie Norton, cousin Cas Wallin, and other kinfolks in the Wallin, Chandler, Norton, Ramsey, and Ray families of Sodom, North Carolina, who have so long been admired by ballad singers and collectors. She has recorded prolifically and performed at dozens of venues and festivals in the United States and Great Britain, including at the annual National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. In 2013, she received the National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.