Pictured above: Kevin Nutt is archivist at the AAFC
The Archive of Alabama Folk Culture (AAFC) was established in 2006 to preserve fieldwork, research documents, recordings, and artifacts of the state's folk traditions. It is located in the newly-expanded Archives building on Washington Avenue, across from the State Capitol in Montgomery.
A key component of the AAFC is a studio equipped to copy 78rpm records, long-play albums, reel and cassette recordings, and various other audio and video recordings to digital format. There folklife archivist Kevin Nutt is working to make decades of research done by state folkloristis and scholars accessible to the public.
The AAFC is a collabrative project of the Alabama Folklife Association, the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture and the Alabama Department of Archives and History. It is funded with proceeds from the sale of "Support the Arts" car tags and with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
If you have material to offer, please contact the Registrar of the ADAH (334-353-4726) or the Alabama Folklife Association.