For those of us who remember the 1940s-1960s folk revival, Ellen
Stekert is an important singer, collector and folklorist.

Ellen J. (Jane) Stekert
Professor Emerita University of Minnesota, Department of English.

There is now a website devoted to her: https://ellenstekert.com/

A 2017 recording of a concert she gave in Minneapolis MN
https://youtu.be/M94j6e3Gmhw
Hope someone can identify a few items in this concert marked ???.
tentative list of the songs:
1 Little Drummer ???
2 introduction
3 Midnight Special (Leadbelly)
4 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
5 Where Have All the Flowers Gond (Seeger)
6 Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds)
7 On The Rim of the World (Malvina Reynolds)
8 All Kinds of Trouble (from Folkways Anthology) ???
9 Dummy Line
10 Ballad of October 16th (Almanac Singers)
11 Balance the Budget ???
12 Shule Aroon
13 talk - recording Lumberjack Songs for Harold Thompson
14 Shugo ???
15 Golden Apples of the Sun
16 Old Devil Time (Seeger)
17 Children's medley ???
      what are the songs ?????
      who is the collecter she refers to ?????
18 talk - folk revival
19 So Long It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust) (Guthrie)

an extensive interview here:
https://musicguy247.typepad.com/my-blog/2020/05/dr-ellen-stekert-cornell-indiana-university-of-pennsylvania-folklorist-recording-artist-educator-american-folklore-society.html


WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Stekert

recordings
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STINSON SLP 49 Ozark Mountain Folk Songs Volume I   10" LP 1955
Ellen Stekert, guitar, vocals
Program notes by Kenneth S Goldstein and lyrics on container
A1 Down By The Sea Shore
A2 Grandma’s Advice
A3 On The Banks of the Sweet Dundee
A4 Father Grumble
B1 Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
B2 Wildwood Flower
B3 Putting On The Style
B4 Caroline of the Edinborough Town

[a 2nd volume was mentioned in the liner notes, but not issued??]


CORNELL Recording Society CRS 10050,            10" LP 1956
Ballads of Careless Love
- Love Songs from Great Britain and the United States
Sung by Ellen Stekert
Notes written and edited by
Prof. Harold W.Thompson, Editor: New York Folklore Quarterly.
Side A (F8-OL-2442-1A)
A1 Down in the Willow Garden
A2 Frankie and Johnny
A3 I Know Where I'm Going
A4 Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
A5 Dink's Song
A6 Careless Love
A7 Come All You Fair and Tender Maidewns
A8 The Trees They Do Grow High
Side B (F8OL-2443-2)
B1 Died For Love
B2 Charlie Is My Darling
B3 Omie Wise
B4 The Blackbird
B5 Easy Rider
B6 Go 'way From My Window


RIVERSIDE RLP 12-634            LP 1956
Traditional American Love Songs
Milt Okun and Ellen Stekert

A1 Must I Go Bound   
A2 She's Like The Swallow   
A3 Shule Aroo (Ellen Stekert)   
A4 The Cambric Shirt = Scarborough Fair   
A5 The Lass From The Low Country   
A6 Poor Lolette   
A7 Who Will Shoe?   
A8 The Lass Of Glenshee   
A9 He Took Me By The Hand   
B1 Paper Of Pins   
B2 Trouble   
B3 The Foggy Foggy Dew #   
B4 The Brazos River   
B5 Adios Mi Corazon # (Spanish Is The Loving Tongue)   
B6 Every Night When The Sun Goes Down (Suzanne) #   
B7 Red Rosey Bush   
B8 No, John, No   

various tracks from this Riverside album reissued on
Riverside Wonderland albums EVERYBODY SING! Vol.1, 2, 3.
Prestige CD The Riverside / Folklore Series Vol. 3:
Singing the New Tradition Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of
the Folk Revival.

in ELEKTRA EKL 151 OUR SINGING HERITAGE Volume I       LP 1958
A8 Ellen Stekert: The House Carpenter
B3 Ellen Stekert: Froggie Went A Courting

[note: the unissued Volume II reportedly contains some Stekert tracks]

Elektra 60402 O LOVE IS TEASIN' 3-LP box
   contains Froggie Went A Coutring.


FOLKWAYS FA 2354            LP 1958
Songs of a New York Lumberjack
Ellen Stekert
A1 Bounding the U.S.
A2 Hills of Glenshee
A3 The Western Pioneers
A4 The Two Sisters
A5 Johnny Troy
A6 Poor Old Anthony Rolly
A7 Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade
A8 The Drummer Boy
A9 The Trouble Down at Homestead
B1 The Fox
B2 The Cumberland and the Merrimac
B3 The Singular Dream
B4 Lakes of Ponchatrain
B5 The Black Cook
B6 Abe Lincoln Went to Washington
B7 The Shanty Boy and the Farmer's Son
B8 Les Raftsman
B9 The Jealous Lover


FOLKWAYS FS 3805 The Unfortunate Rake       LP 1960
206 A Sun Valley Song         Jan Brunvand and Ellen Stekert


FOLKWAYS FH 5717 Songs of the Civil War    LP 1960
206 The Cumberland and the Merrimac         Ellen Stekert
304 Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade         Ellen Stekert


1962 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
1962 Swarthmore Song Fest (Folk Festival)


Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning, 1910-1983
Film by Mimi Pickering, Produced by (c) 1988 Appalshop Films, 38min.
https://www.folkstreams.net/films/dreadful-memories


Thomas.