O.J. Abbott

O.J. Abbott, blessed Oliver John Abbott in Enfield, Britain in 1872, continued to get a lifetime’s worthy of of folk music across 90 years, and distributed a huge selection of them with the globe. He transferred from Britain to Canada in early stages in lifestyle, and grew near Canada’s Irish-born and descended transplants, focusing on farms in the Ottawa Valley and in lumber camps in Ontario and Quebec. With the middle-’50s, he was a well-known amount in the Canadian and UNITED STATES folksong circles, and from 1957 until his loss of life in the past due wintertime of 1962, he documented over 100 folksongs, many dating in the 1880s and 1890s, and produced from Irish traditional resources. Folkways Information released some of these recordings, aswell as elements of his functionality on the 1960 Newport Folk Festival. By this time around near 90 years of age, Abbott discovered his work popular all over the world, and he performed on the Country wide Museum of Guy in 1958, performed the following calendar year with Pete Seeger in Ottawa, in 1960 over the CBC (aswell as at Newport with Seeger), and in 1961 on the Mariposa Folk Celebration. He passed on early the next year.