Jeff Place Explained

Jeff Place (born 1956) is the American writer and producer, and a curator and senior archivist with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.[1] [2] [3] [4] He has won three Grammy Awards and six Indie Awards.

Early life

Place learned his appreciation for folk music from his parents who took him to Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary concerts when he was a child. He attended Kenyon College, graduating in 1979.[5] After college, Place worked in a record store in Washington, D.C. and started writing reviews for the store's magazine, REVUE.

He then enrolled in the University of Maryland, receiving an Master of Library Science with a specialization in sound archives.

Career

After graduate school, Place started working at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1988, Place and Anthony "Tony" Seeger were the first two full-time employees at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage when the Smithsonian acquired Folkways Records from the estate of Moses Asch. In 1989, he started writing liner notes for the Folkways albums. He has also written companion books for special releases and box sets.[6]

Place has been involved in the compilation of more than sixty albums of American music for Smithsonian Folkways. He won three Grammy Awards, two (Best Album Notes and Best Historical Album) in 1997 for Anthology of American Folk Music - 1997 Expanded Edition, and one (Producer) for Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Collection in 2019.[7] He received Grammy-nominations for five other productions (ten nominations total). He also received six Indie Awards.

Place helped curate several exhibitions, including This Land is Your Land about Woody Guthrie.

Awards and honors

Personal life

After living in Mayo, Maryland since 1997, Place moved to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in 2020.

Discography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Smithsonian Folkways Staff Smithsonian Folkways. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. en-US. 2018-04-04.
  2. Web site: 2019-12-26 . Spotlight: Mayo resident receives eighth Grammy nomination in 2020 . 2023-06-25 . Capital Gazette.
  3. Web site: 2014-06-24 . Interview: Jeff Place, Producer At Smithsonian Folkways . 2023-06-25 . Folk Renaissance . en-US.
  4. Web site: Price . Lilly . 2020 . Mayo resident receives 8th Grammy nomination in 2020 - Baltimore Sun . 2023-06-25 . digitaledition.baltimoresun.com.
  5. Web site: Sacks . Judy . Fall 2015 . Book Reviews: A Titan of American Music . 2023-06-25 . Kenyon Alumni Magazine . en.
  6. Web site: Ruehl . Kim . February 17, 2015 . Digging Into Lead Belly's America: An Interview with Smithsonian Folkways' Jeff Place . 2023-06-25 . No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music . en-US.
  7. Web site: All GRAMMY Awards and Nominations for Jeff Place . 2023-06-25 . www.grammy.com.
  8. Web site: Brenda McCallum Prize . 2023-06-25 . The American Folklore Society . en-US.
  9. Web site: 2011-03-29 . 10th Annual Independent Music Awards Winners Announced! . 2023-06-25 . Independent Music Awards . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2018-04-02 . THE 16TH INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED . 2023-06-25 . Independent Music Awards . en-US.
  11. Web site: Leimkuehler . Matthew . September 26, 2019 . 2019 Bluegrass Music Awards: A complete list of winners . 2023-06-25 . The Tennessean . en-US.
  12. Web site: Cronin . Brian PJ . 2019-05-03 . 5 Questions: Jeff Place . 2023-06-25 . The Highlands Current . en-US.

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