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Sarah Gertrude Knott

Sarah Gertrude Knott (1895 Kevil, Kentucky – 1984) was an American folklorist, and folk festival organizer.[1]

Sarah Gertrude Knott

1895 Edit this on Wikidata

November 20, 1994 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 98–99)

Early life[edit]

Sarah Gertrude Knott was born in 1895 in Kevil, Kentucky. She created the National Folk Festival Association in 1933 and founded the National Folk Festival, first held in St Louis, in 1934.[2][3]

California Folklore Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), pp. 83–93

"The National Folk Festival after Twelve Years"

Michael Ann Williams. Staging tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.  9780252073441[4][5][6]

ISBN

FA Oral Histories. Paper 428.

Interview with Sarah Gertrude Knott, 1895-1984

Western Kentucky University

Knott, Sarah Gertrude, 1895-1984