Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell
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Biography
Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell were both long time members of the Grange in Bingham, ME. Cahill, who worked in the lumberwoods as a younger man, was a member since the early 1960s. He sang in Bingham and at other Grange halls in Maine, though he never considered himself a singer. Ruppell, who joined the grange in the early 1950s, was the official pianist, or “official musician,” for the Bingham Grange.
Keywords
Jeff McKeen, "Bye-Bye Longjohns", Bingham Grange, Maine, lumberwoods, pianist, singer
Disciplines
Ethnomusicology | Folklore | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Cahill, Jim and Ruppell, Dot, "Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell" (2012). Maine Song and Story Sampler Artists. 20.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplerartists/20
Location
Bingham, ME
Works
“Bye-Bye Longjohns” collected by Jeff McKeen.