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800 E. Broad St. | Richmond, VA 23219www.lva.virginia.govNON-PROFIT ORG.U.S. POSTAGEPAIDRICHMOND, VAPERMIT NO. 1088PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONTHERE’LL ALWAYS BE MUSICAbove: Eleanor Roosevelt poses with White Top Folk Festivalcontestants Frank Blevins (fiddle), Jack Reedy (banjo), Edd Blevins(guitar), and six-year-old mandolin sensation Muriel Dockery in 1933in Grayson County. Virginia Chamber of Commerce Collection, Libraryof Virginia. At right: Singers hoping to become the next American Idolline up for blocks around Capitol Square to audition for the reality TVshow during its stop in Richmond on July 15, 2014.THEN & NOW Music competitions are part of Virginia historyStaff photographer Pierre Courtois captured the activity of the White Top Folk Festival competition. Several thousandaround Capitol Square when the audition tour bus forpeople attended the first White Top Folk Festival on August 15,American Idol, the reality television singing competition, made a 1931. Held on Whitetop Mountain in Grayson County, the eventstop in Richmond in July. It reminded us that music competitionsare part of Virginia’s past as well as its present. An exampleis this 1933 Virginia Chamber of Commerce Collection imageconsisted mainly of instrumental and singing contests. The newimages will be added to the Library’s photograph collection.