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61 relations: A. L. Lloyd, American folk music revival, Appalachian Mountains, Banjo, BBC Radio 1, Bear Family Records, Bill Clifton, Bill Leader, Bobby Bare, Cancer, Carnegie Hall, Cartersville, Georgia, Clawhammer, Coal mining, Columbia University, David Lewin, Don West (educator), Folk music, Folk-Legacy Records, Georgia (U.S. state), Greenwich Village, Guitar, Highlander Research and Education Center, Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Little Sadie, Los Angeles, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, Mannes School of Music, Maynard Solomon, Mississippi John Hurt, Nashville, Tennessee, New Market, Tennessee, New York City, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Newport Folk Festival, Pete Seeger, Peter and Gordon, Peter, Paul and Mary, Philadelphia, Princeton, New Jersey, Public broadcasting, Rainbow Quest, Roger Zelazny, Rosanne Cash, Singing, Songwriter, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, ..., The Highwaymen (folk band), The Kingston Trio, The Midnight Special (radio), Three Score and Ten, Topic Records, Vanguard Records, Vietnam War, West Virginia, Western Carolina University, WFMT, 500 Miles. Expand index (11 more) »
A. L. Lloyd
Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908 – 29 September 1982),Eder, Bruce.
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American folk music revival
The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Banjo
The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.
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BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.
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Bear Family Records
Bear Family Records is a Germany-based independent record label that specializes in reissues of archival material ranging from country music to 1950s rock and roll to old German movie soundtracks.
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Bill Clifton
Bill Clifton (born William August Marburg on April 5, 1931) is an American bluegrass musician and singer who is credited with having organized one of the first bluegrass festivals in the United States in 1961.
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Bill Leader
Bill Leader (born 1929) is an English recording engineer and record producer.
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Bobby Bare
Robert Joseph Bare Sr. (born April 7, 1935) is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for the songs "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home".
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.
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Cartersville, Georgia
Cartersville is a city in Bartow County in the U.S. state of Georgia; it is located within the northwest edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Clawhammer
Clawhammer, sometimes called frailing, is a varied banjo playing style and a common component of American old-time music.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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David Lewin
David Benjamin Lewin (July 2, 1933 – May 5, 2003) was an American music theorist, music critic and composer.
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Don West (educator)
Don West (born Donald Lee West) (June 6, 1906 – September 29, 1992) was an American writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer, civil-rights activist and a co-founder of the Highlander Folk School.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Folk-Legacy Records
Folk-Legacy Records is an independent record label specializing in traditional and contemporary folk music of the English-speaking world.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Highlander Research and Education Center
The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee.
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Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie (December 8, 1922 – June 1, 2015) was an American folk music singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.
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Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards) and for her social activism.
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Little Sadie
"Little Sadie" is a 20th-century American folk ballad in D Dorian mode.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania
Lower Merion Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and part of the Philadelphia Main Line.
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Mannes School of Music
Mannes School of Music is a music conservatory in The New School.
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Maynard Solomon
Maynard Solomon (born January 5, 1930) was a co-founder of Vanguard Records as well as a music producer.
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Mississippi John Hurt
John Smith Hurt (possibly March 3, 1892 – November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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New Market, Tennessee
New Market is a town in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York University Tandon School of Engineering
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University.
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Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.
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Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
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Peter and Gordon
Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No.1 smash "A World Without Love".
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township.
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Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.
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Rainbow Quest
Rainbow Quest (1965–66) was a U.S. television series devoted to folk music and hosted by Pete Seeger.
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Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
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Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Songwriter
A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.
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Stony Brook University
The State University of New York at Stony Brook (also known as Stony Brook University or SUNY Stony Brook) is a public sea-grant and space-grant research university in the eastern United States.
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Stony Brook, New York
Stony Brook is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island.
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The Highwaymen (folk band)
The Highwaymen were a 1960s "collegiate folk" group.
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The Kingston Trio
The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.
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The Midnight Special (radio)
The Midnight Special is a syndicated radio show broadcast on Chicago, Illinois radio station, WFMT-FM (98.7 MHz) since 1953.
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Three Score and Ten
Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People is a multi-CD box set album issued by Topic Records in 2009 to celebrate 70 years as an independent British record label.
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Topic Records
Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival.
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Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.
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Western Carolina University
Western Carolina University (WCU) is a coeducational public university located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States.
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WFMT
WFMT is an FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a format of fine arts, classical music programming, and shows exploring such genres as folk and jazz.
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500 Miles
"500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_West
