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Blessed in Iowa, and relocated to Kansas in early youth, Thurlow Weed Lieurance spent his formative years on frontier property in the American Plains. Small is well known of his early education, but using the outbreak from the Spanish-American Battle, Lieurance enlisted like a musician. At war’s end, Lieurance signed …

Anyone who idea that Randy Sparks’ New Christy Minstrels represented probably the most well-scrubbed component of the folk revival never reckoned using the Serendipity Performers. This mixed-voice non-et, founded on the School of Colorado by Mike Brovsky, H. Brooks Hatch, and Bryan Sennett, produced Sparks’ group appear to be a …