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Bruce Bollerud collection, 1919-2009 1960-2009
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Materials documenting Bruce Bollerud's life and work as a musician with the Goose Island Ramblers and the Good Time Band, as a solo performer, and his work as a special education teacher. The Bruce...
Materials documenting Bruce Bollerud's life and work as a musician with the Goose Island Ramblers and the Good Time Band, as a solo performer, and his work as a special education teacher.
The Bruce Bollerud Collection is housed in seven archival boxes and one oversize folder, arranged in three series. Series are designated for music materials, papers, and sound recordings. Materials include manuscripts of individual original songs and folios, song lyrics, sound recordings in a variety of formats, newspaper clippings, correspondence, gig contracts, recording contracts, royalty statements, manuscript books, and framed items. This collection provides researchers with a body of material for studying Bruce Bollerud, music arranging, rehearsal, performance, and the old-time music scene in Wisconsin from the 1960s-2000s from the perspective of a gigging musician.
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- Format
- Manuscripts, Theses; Mixed Materials
- Languages
- Multiple languages, English, German, Norwegian
- Contributors
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- Eggum, Sammy, performer
- Gilbertsen, George, 1925-2017, performer
- Gjerald, Ole, performer
- Noll, Ralph, performer
- Simpson, Emil, performer
- Simpson, Tina, performer
- Swingen, Herbert, performer
- Weum, Joe, performer
- Whitford, Windy, 1913-2000, performer
- Dix, Bruce, creator
- Peters, Max, creator
- Sherwood, Dick, creator
- Emil Simpson's Nite Hawks (Old-time group)
- Good Time Band
- Goose Island Ramblers
- Physical Details
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- 10.5 Linear Feet (18 document boxes, one poster board)
- Arrangement
- Arranged into three series: I. Music Materials, II. Papers, III. Sound Recordings
- OCLC
- on1327868682, on1293473569
- Some of the collection is in a format that is not currently accessible. The Mills Music Library does not have playback equipment for 1/4" audio tape or digital audiocassettes. Please consult Mills Music Library staff prior to access.
- Collection materials may be subject to laws governing rights. Researchers are solely responsible for determining the rights status of the materials they use. Permission may be required for some uses such as publication or reproduction.
- Bruce Bollerud collection; online. Includes materials from this collection. https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Bollerud
- Down Home Dairyland collection; Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Cuca Records collection; Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Goose Island Ramblers Documentation Project Collection, 1990-1991; CSUMC0010-CG. Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
- Bruce Bollerud (1934-2020) was born on a farm near Hollandale, Wisconsin, and grew-up surrounded by music from the Norwegian-American old-time dance tradition. Bollerud played several instruments, among them the bandoneon, piano accordion, trombone, and jug, and also sang. As a gigging musician, Bollerud played with a number of local Wisconsin bands over the years, including the Rhythm Ramblers, Emil Simpson's Nite Hawks, The Polka Jacks, and Feller's Swiss Band. However, the best-known band was the Goose Island Ramblers, of which he was a founding member. They were a three-piece band, made up of Bollerud ("the Hollandale Wildcat" or "Loose Bruce the Goose"), K. Wendell Whitford ("Uncle Windy"), and George Gilbertsen ("Smokey George"). The Goose Island Ramblers were the house band at two taverns in Madison, Wis., Glen and Ann's and Johnny's Packer Inn, during the 1960s and 1970s, and they recorded for Cuca Records in 1964. They temporarily disbanded in 1975. However, they were featured in documentaries and radio programs in Wisconsin in the late '70s and early '80s. Bollerud also played regular gigs with the Good Time Band around Madison, including at the German-American bar and restaurant Essen Haus. Later, the Goose Island Ramblers performed for the Smithsonian Institution's Folk Masters series in 1994, and made 3 more recordings for Cuca Records in 1999 before Whitford's death in 2000. Bollerud continued to play with his Good Time Band throughout the 2000s, and wrote two books of accordion music, International accordion favorites and Uff da! Let's dance! Scandinavian tunes and house party music .
- Materials in English, German and Norwegian.