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Vocalist/songwriter Richard Dyer-Bennet was among the primary performers from the folk music renaissance of the first ’40s. A classically educated talent using a pitch-perfect, high lyric tenor, he was also an uncompromising proponent of innovative rights, also founding his very own highly influential 3rd party record label. Delivered Oct 6, …

From virtually the outset of her folksinging career, Ella Jenkins stood in the forefront of children’s music, establishing herself among the couple of music artists in the genre whose charms extended beyond her young market into the world of adults and teachers. Given birth to in St. Louis but elevated …

Few figures deserve higher credit for the preservation of America’s folk music traditions than Alan Lomax. Scouring the backroads, honky tonks, and function camps from the Deep South, he unearthed a treasure trove of tunes and performers, documenting the music of the normal man for potential generations to find; through …

Moe Asch is among the most important nonmusicians in the annals of 20th hundred years music, whose tale is virtually synonymous with this of his record label, Folkways. Through the 1940s towards the ’80s, Folkways released a huge selection of important folk music recordings, and actually was the initial significant …