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Music played a significant part in the first existence of John Jacob Niles, and he’d spend his existence collecting, composing, and executing folk tunes. By age 15 he previously begun collecting tunes in the Appalachian Mountains, a habit he’d continue while providing like a ferry pilot in the U.S. Air …

Buffy Sainte-Marie has enjoyed an extended career which has seen her rise to stardom in the folk circuit and try her hand at country, rock, soundtrack themes, operating, activism, and children’s television. For some listeners, she continues to be identified using the materials she wrote and sang for Vanguard within …

Being a musician, Richard Farina will be mainly known for the recordings he did within the mid-’60s as 1 / 2 of Richard & Mimi Farina. He do, however, make several very obscure single recordings within the mid-’60s, in addition to doing a youthful duo record with fellow folksinger Eric …

To numerous casual listeners through the early ’60s, the brand new Christy Minstrels were the embodiment of popular folk music. If they are not kept in mind (or discussed) in an exceedingly serious way, it’s mainly for their picture: ten well-scrubbed, generally smiling teenagers and women performing upbeat tunes about …

Vocalist Judy Collins was, alongside Joan Baez, among the two main interpretive performers to emerge from the folk revival from the past due ’50s and early ’60s. Like Baez, she started performing traditional folk tracks, then shifted to popularize the task of contemporary vocalist/songwriters, even composing her own tracks sometimes. …

We Five were a quintet led by singer/guitarist/banjoist Mike Stewart, who also arranged a lot of the group’s music; Pete Fullerton (bass, vocals), Beverly Bivens (business lead vocals), Bob Jones (six- and 12-string electrical guitars, vocals), and Jerry Burgan (vocals, classical guitar) had been the other people. They were shaped …

While Judy Henske is most more popular as a body in the ’60s folk music picture, categorizing her being a folk musician is eventually inaccurate and limiting. Henske trim a lot of folk-oriented materials, and far of it had been excellent, but her full-bodied, passionate tone of voice and con …

A medicine display performer within the 1910s and 1920s, Clarence (Tom) Ashley influenced the metropolitan folk revival when his early recordings were included on the Folkways album Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952. Although he previously retired through the medicine present circuit in 1943, he produced a successful return …