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The Tryon and Asheville, NC Years



Eunice Waymon
(aka Nina Simone) , age 8



Eunice Waymon (aka Nina Simone) age 12



Eunice Waymon (aka Nina Simone) age 14



Old St Luke's CME Church, Tryon, NC,
where Eunice Waymon (aka Nina Simone)
began her musical career.


'Mrs. Mazzy', i.e., Muriel Mazzanovich,
by Betty Anne Mills Dobbyns (1969).
Oil pencil drawing.



Mazzanovich Studio. Glengarnock Road.
Gillette Woods. Tryon, NC.



Eunice Waymon Piano Recital
Unique Copy. Hand-lettered by Garland Goodwin. 1949


Tryon Daily Bulletin. 7 March 1929 issue.
1st graphic evidence of
Wayman's (sic) in Tryon, NC.


Tryon Daily Bulletin. 18 March 1941 issue.
Colored School Honor Roll notice


Tryon Daily Bulletin.24 April 1943 issue.
Poem on Eunice.


Tryon Daily Bulletin.15 May 1943 issue.
Community Choir with Eunice Waymon notice


Tryon Daily Bulletin. 8
November 1946 issue.
St. Luke's Autumn Bazaar notice.


Tyon Daily Bulletin. 19 August 1947 issue.
Grand Recital notice.


Allen Home School for Girls. Asheville, NC,
where Eunice Waymon attended from 1948-1950.
Postcard c. 1950.


Clemens Sandresky,
Eunice Waymon's piano teacher in
Asheville, NC. circa 1948


Eunice Waymon (aka Nina Simone)
Valedictorian. Allen School for Girls,
Asheville, NC. 1950


Nina Simone Birthplace, circa 1940. 30 East Livingston Street, Tryon, NC. Figure unknown



Episcopal Mission School (Good Shepherd), circa 1940, with Eunice Waymon (a.k.a. Nina Simone) seated in right background

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Eunice Waymon. Age 16. Allen School
auditorium. Circa 1948. Ex coll. Dr. Patricia Caple

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Eunice Waymon. Age 17. Allen School. Circa 1949. Ex coll. Dr. Patricia Caple
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Eunice Waymon Report Card-1947-1950



Esther Moore Borg by Stella Sassoon (c.1940s). Benefactress of Eunice Waymon.
   
 
Lifetime Concert and Tour Programs and Posters


1st Annual Los Angeles
Jazz Festival program. 1959

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Hunter College Concert Program.Art D'Lugoff Concert Series.21 October 1960.Ex coll.- Village Gate Archive

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Hunter College Concert Poster.Art D'Lugoff Concert Series.21 October 1960.Ex coll.- Village Gate Archive


Campus Favorities industry poster. 1964.
Simone and others


The Rheingold Central Park Music
Festival program. 1966


Newport Jazz Festival program. 1966


1st Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival program. 1966


Royal Albert Hall Concert program with
Dick Gregory and Nina Simone. 19 April 1967.
Gift by NSP to PCHA
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Newport Jazz Festival program.1967


England Tour program. 1969


New Arts Jazz Festival. NC State University. 1 November 1969
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Concert Ticket. Nina Simone & Hugh Masakela Philadelphia Academy of Music.9 Feb 1969


11th Annual Ohio Jazz Festival program. 1970
Gift by NSP to PCHA


Nina Simone at Fillmore East program. 1970
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A L'Olympia - Bruno Coquatrix


Newport Jazz Festival 1970
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A Special Nina Simone Rare Appearance.Classic Artists Concerts.Houston Fine Arts Center (Denver Colorado Womens College).4 Dec 1983.Ex coll.- Sam Waymon
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Return of Nina Simone.Alternate Poster.Queen Elizabeth Theatre.26 Nov 1983. Ex coll.-Sam Waymon
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Salute to Bob Marley.Concert Poster.Queen Elizabeth Theatre. 26 Nov 1983.Ex coll.- Sam Waymon


Australia and New Zealand
Concert Tour program. 1992
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England Tour Poster.Kennedy Street Enterprises.2002
     
 
Nina Simone Project Periodical Press Notices and Bookform Publications


Nina Simone. 'Carolina Chanteuse'
OUR STATE magazine. September 2007


'Nina Simone--Tryon Celebrates a Timeless Talent.' Mountain Traditions Magazine. Fall-Winter 2007


Nina Simone, Tryon Celebrates. Spartanburg Magazine. Summer 2008


Making Notes; Music of the Carolinas.Nina Simone Put a Spell on Us.Charles Blackburn Jr.Novello Festival Press, 2008



JET. March 2-9, 2009 issue. Nina Simone Sculpture Preview (cover & p.22)



'Nina Simone Memorialized in North Carolina Hometown'. DOWNBEAT. August 2009
   
 
Photographs


Simone Publicity Still.General Artists Corporation.1959


Nina Simone publicity still. 1960


Simone Publicity Still.General Artists Corporation.1960


Simone Publicity Still.International Talent Associates.1964


Simone Publicity Still.1968


Simone Publicity Still. Stroud Productions 1969


Sandresky thank you
 
 
Autographs



'I Put A Spell On You.' Ebury Press, 1991.
1st edition, 1st issue. Autographed



'Ne me quitte pas' musical fragment
with Nina Simone autograph
and salutation. 1987

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Village Gate contract. 18 July 1961. Original signatures with Simone's rider. Ex coll.- Village Gate Archives

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Nina Simone Apollo Theatre Contract
 
Posthumous Events and programs



Dr. Nina Simone Memorial Service
St. Luke's C.M.E Church, Tryon, NC
June 21, 2003



Crys Armbrust, Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Eunice Waymon - Nina Simone Memorial



Happy McLeod, Crys Armbrust,
and Frances Waymon - Fox, Nina's sister


'Viva la musique' program.
Inaugural event of the EW-NS MP.
28 September 2006.
Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon, NC


Lucianne Evans, NC Jazz vocalist.'Viva La Musique'. Sept 2006.JPG
     
 
Sponsored Outreach and Benefit Programs


Angela Logan



Angela Logan with William Hannon, Valentino Burroughs, and Chuck Greer.



Angela Logan and Chuck Greer


Cantare



Sparkle City Brass (Cantare in background)



One Way



Fiddlers Fancy



Fiddlers Fancy



'Voices for Hospices' 2007. Concert Poster. NSP sponsored benefit for Western North Carolina AIDS Project



'Voices for Hospices' 2007. Concert program
   
 
Artistic Representations


Lady Midnight by Mucha Kachidza 2007


Nina & Morris by Kathleen Carson 2007



Nina - Claudius Harris