Jeff Place

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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. [5] [2] [4]

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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. [4] He attended Kenyon College, graduating in 1979. [6] After college, Place worked in a record store in Washington, D.C. and started writing reviews for the store's magazine, REVUE. [4]

He then enrolled in the University of Maryland, receiving a Master of Library Science with a specialization in sound archives. [4] [1]

Career

After graduate school, Place started working at the Smithsonian Institution. [4] 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. [3] [1] In 1989, he started writing liner notes for the Folkways albums. [4] He has also written companion books for special releases and box sets. [7]

Place has been involved in the compilation of more than sixty albums of American music for Smithsonian Folkways. [1] 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. [5] [2] He received Grammy-nominations for five other productions (ten nominations total). [5] [2] He also received six Indie Awards. [2]

Place helped curate several exhibitions, including This Land is Your Land about Woody Guthrie . [1]

Awards and honors

Personal life

After living in Mayo, Maryland since 1997, Place moved to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina in 2020. [4]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Smithsonian Folkways Staff | Smithsonian Folkways". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Spotlight: Mayo resident receives eighth Grammy nomination in 2020". Capital Gazette. 2019-12-26. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Interview: Jeff Place, Producer At Smithsonian Folkways". Folk Renaissance. 2014-06-24. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Price, Lilly (2020). "Mayo resident receives 8th Grammy nomination in 2020 - Baltimore Sun". digitaledition.baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "All GRAMMY Awards and Nominations for Jeff Place". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  6. 1 2 Sacks, Judy (Fall 2015). "Book Reviews: A Titan of American Music". Kenyon Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  7. 1 2 Ruehl, Kim (February 17, 2015). "Digging Into Lead Belly's America: An Interview with Smithsonian Folkways' Jeff Place". No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  8. ↑ "Brenda McCallum Prize". The American Folklore Society. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  9. ↑ "10th Annual Independent Music Awards Winners Announced!". Independent Music Awards. 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  10. ↑ "THE 16TH INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED". Independent Music Awards. 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  11. ↑ Leimkuehler, Matthew (September 26, 2019). "2019 Bluegrass Music Awards: A complete list of winners". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
  12. ↑ Cronin, Brian PJ (2019-05-03). "5 Questions: Jeff Place". The Highlands Current. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
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