Robert Lynn 'Bobby' McMillon (December 20, 1951 – November 28, 2021) was an American traditional

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

singer, musician, and storyteller living in Lenoir, N.C. He was a 2000 recipient of the

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Career

Bobby performed throughout

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as well as at the

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, the A.P. Carter Memorial Festival, the Festival for the Eno, and national storytelling conferences. McMillon has also worked with public schools through the Artist in the Schools and Visiting Artist programs.Bobby McMillon Collection (2007),

Southern Folklife Collection The Southern Folklife Collection is an archival resource at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating traditional and vernacular music, art, and culture related to the American South. T ...

, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/McMillon,Bobby.html

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McMillion, Bobby 1951 births Living people Musicians from Appalachia People from Lenoir, North Carolina