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Meet the Masters: Jim & Colleen Cleveland, Ballad Singers, Brant Lake
(01/17/00) Jim Cleveland and his daughter Colleen are descendants of Scottish and Irish settlers and sing the traditional ballads of those communities, usually without unaccompaniment. Some of the family's very old ballads have not been collected from any other North American source.

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