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Thread #9646   Message #62981
Posted By: ritajgatti@aol.com
14-Mar-99 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: Memories of NY in the 60's folk/blues scene
Subject: RE: Memories of NY in the 60's folk/blues scene
Gee thanks Rick & Murray...I remember Izzy...The Folklore Center...that might be it. I think Marc had something to do with Sing Out Mag. So Judy Henske did do Tell Ole Bill. It's not on the album I have of hers. Rick what kind of stuff do you do. Tell me about the concert with Stephan.(if you care too). I have forgotten a lot of the details of those years...a friend of mine from London, Miles Mabbett...he documented the Pink Floyd from those years forward...said, ..."if you remember the sixties, you weren't there!" How true. I was there. Singing in the Village and in London, although my home was in Big Sur and most of my folk music involvement was local. There was a folk festival every year at the Hot Springs, now known as Esalen. It was exciting, everybody came from everywhere. I sang in about 4 of them, I think there were 7. One I did solo with a fiddle player named Hank Bradley, the rest were with a group called the Big Sur Choir (all 5 members)which is also the name of an album we recorded. Dick & Mimi Farnia and then after Dick's death just Mimi, Joan Baez, Blood Sweat & Tears, Taj Mahal, Mickey Newbury, Kris Kristofferson, John Cooke, Tom Jans, many more...that might have been where I first met Stephan. Anyway, thanks and thanks Murray...I found Stephan's site and shot off an e-mail immediately. This is all so terrific. How do you come to know Stephan. I remember now that he had the greatest collection of blues of anyone around at the time. Rita