Allen Yonge Flamenco Collection - UW Ethnomusicology Archives: Acknowledgements

We'd like to express our gratitude to Penny Yonge for choosing to deposit her husband's unique collection of recordings in the UW Ethnomusicology Archives. The Allen Yonge Collection, established in Allen's memory, will be an important resource for future generations of flamenco students, scholars, and devotees.

Thanks also to Kent Carnes, brother of Chris Carnes, for giving us permission to include Chris's recordings with the Allen Yonge Collection, and to Carol Whitney for permission to include her recordings as well. Their field recordings provide a unique document of an historical period of flamenco performance in Spain.

If not for the work of Jim Kuhn, individual recordings in the collection would be far less accesible than they are. Through many months of toil, Jim digitized and logged hundreds of tapes, creating a logbook that is really the key to accessing the collection. And no one but Jim could have done this work! He too sought out the "mero corazón" in Spain in the "old days," hanging with the musicians, studying guitar, immersing himself in the tradition. He knew many of the musicians on these recordings and was able to fill in names, events, places, dates, and musical genres. We are immensely grateful to him for this labor of love! (And for the best paella in the Pacific Northwest, hire Jim, aka the Paelle King - http://paellaking.com/