Paintings of folk musicians and dancers

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Allan Conn
Date: 26 Jun 17 - 02:05 AM

Jo Powell is an artist who used to live here in the Borders though she's moved back down to Lancashire or thereabouts now. She is also an accordianist. She got inspiration from other musicians and has a particular style of her own. Some are of named artists others are just based on people. For instance I'm sure "The Border Piper" is Matt Seattle who's been known to occasionally post on here.

http://www.joannapowellpaintings.co.uk/a1-gallery2.asp?roomID=5010

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: open mike
Date: 26 Jun 17 - 12:45 AM

I have been searching through Thomas HART bENTON PAINTINGS AND FOUND this one of his daughter...Jessie with Guitar..... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/6d/d0/2a/6dd02acde8f296674ca6195ff10667f6.jpg

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: open mike
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 11:58 PM

mentioned in this thread is a series of images by R. Crumb of Bllues Musicians He has a similar series (made into a pack of 40 cards) featuring the Pioneers of Country Music.... http://nodepression.com/article/pioneers-country-music-r-crumb-and-yazoo-records ....    http://www.deniskitchen.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=sk&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TC.RC.PCM .... https://www.bonanza.com/listings/Pioneers-of-Country-Music-Robert-Crumb-cards-1983-in-Original-Box-40-Card-Set/482901870?goog_pla=1&gpid=18283950120&keyword=&goog_pla=1&pos=1o1&ad_type=pla&gclid=CjwKEAjwvr3KBRD_i_Lz6cihrDASJADUkGCaYr2jV527wYJMd0lWuBqNJf1CnT9xh6cdya0ftWa1LBoCjfLw_wcB

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: open mike
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 11:37 PM

Today someone posted a picture of Jim Nunnely receiving an award from the Country Music Hall of Fame. I was fascinated by the painting behind him...the last painting done by Thomas Hart Benton...here i a poem inspired by that painting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L85D0jGRXBw

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 26 Sep 13 - 09:38 AM

I was researching the kantele, a Finnish stringed instrument, and I found this page, which includes some interesting paintings.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 02:26 PM

Interesting stuff Jim, unfortunately so many of the links have now died the cyber death.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: meself
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 02:17 PM

I guess they're not really folk musicians - I couldn't find any of the folk musicians he has done ....

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: meself
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 02:07 PM

By Al Chaddock.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 03:09 AM

Directed back to this thread by link on the Favorite Paintings thread.

A group of morris dancers, with identifiable hobby-horse, betsy, pipe&taborer, appear prominently in 'The Thames At Richmond', one of a pair of C17 paintings by unknown Flemish artist in the Armoury at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.


http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid=1388

~M~

Sorry: have never mastered clickies

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 06:17 AM

A musical one that got missed earlier:

Old Man with Mandolin (Guitar player paintings are soooooo common.)

Possible the only "musical" painting by Tamara Lempicka suitable for display in a public place (in the US); but I rather like it - and a couple of her guitar players. This one is a little less "art-deco" than much of her work.

The same site (mild nudity warning) has a fair but small selection of her other works. Much of her work was a bit "racy" for our unsophisticated US public, even now, almost a century later.

Note that this thread started in 2004, and lots of the links here probably have drifted to that famous "404 Club." It's likely that most of the paintings discussed can still be found, so asking for help with a link refresh, or for help with where/how to search, shouldn't be out of order.

John

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 05:16 AM

R. Crumb's paintings of blues musicians are wonderful, the best work he ever did. Here's one:

Man with guitar

Crumb had a homepage for this work but I can't find it now.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 01:51 AM

I only recently found that Art Renewal Center (ARC) has revamped their search setup, and apparently have moved nearly all their 50,000+ images to new locations.

The site has always requested that people not link directly to individual paintings, so links that I've posted above are only to an "artist's page" with a description of which image anyone interested could click on to get the "big picture." Even the links to individual pages now seem to have been "reorganized."

The "front page" for Lord Frederick Leighton now identifies him as "artistid=14," indicating that he ranks quite high in the ARC hierarchy of artists.

If you scroll down to picture #8, you find:

Music Lesson
c1877
Oil on canvas
118.1 x 92.8 cm
(3' 10½" x 3' .54")
Guildhall Art Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

Click on the "High Resolution Image" for the excellent (1.97 MB) jpg of the painting. You should be able to right click and "Save Image As" to download it, so that you can put it in your own viewer for examination at a scale you select for best viewing.

The ARC home page remains at http://www.artrenewal.org/, but the "politickering" is a bit heavy there. It's worth scrolling down and poking around some, but probably is most interesting to "working artists."

On the bar at the top (of any ARC page), if you hover on "Museum" the recommended first choice might be "Search the ARC Museum" which offers some 7,000+ artists and - according to ARC - more than 50,000 images. Note the "Custom Searches" box at the right on the front search page. The "Alphabetical by Artist" choice has been my favorite for browsing, although you can also search by date and such.

Also recommended, the selection "Visit the ARC Living Masters™ Gallery" on the same "Museum" button. (But note that copying most works by living artists is likely to be "blocked.")

John

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 03:26 PM

You might like this drawing by cartoonist R. Crumb:

"Where has it gone, all the beautiful music of our grandparents?"

It looks as if it was done for an album cover. There is a Swedish band called Misophone that has used that line ("Where has it gone," etc.) as an album title, but their cover doesn't look anything like the Crumb picture, so I'm guessing they just "stole" the title.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST,Paul Eliasberg
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 09:03 AM

Just a quick note to let you know the johnbvallely.com website mentioned in this thread is no longer active. It's http://www.jbv.ie/ now!
Cheers,
Paul

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 05:36 PM

None of Jim's "Art Renewal Center" links work. Here's one of the Leighton "Music Lesson" that does:

http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/leightonarabhall/paintings/enlarge/p13.html

The instrument is a fairly normal shape for a divan saz (the medium size) but he's got the strings wrong - should be three double (or double and triple) courses, instead he's painted it with six singles.

This one is interesting:

Performers from ancient Pompeii

Double shawm, crotals and frame drum. The drummer is using exactly the same technique as a modern Iranian or Kurdish daf player. Must have been a spectacularly energetic show.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: RTim
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 04:19 PM

Can't even spell my own name!!
Tim Radford..

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: RTim
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 04:18 PM

As this thread was started by Mr. Dixon - I am a little surprised he does not know of :
- THE DIXTON Harvest!

Can't seem to do blue clickies!!

http://www.hayinart.com/000981.html

Tim Dadford

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Apr 09 - 04:55 PM

I now realize that I judged Lord Frederick Leighton's painting "Music Lesson" too hastily. There ARE six tuning pegs on the instrument in the painting; you are viewing 3 of them end-on. They stick out from the front of the headstock, at right angles to the one the woman is tuning.

I figure this instrument is a saz or bağlama or something closely related to it. It's a traditional Turkish instrument. It's normal for a bağlama not to have a sound-hole, though I think some of them do. They come in different sizes—although the ones in different sizes might have different names.

I read that the frets are moveable.

I haven't seen one with a body shape quite like the one in the painting, though.

Go to YouTube and search for bağlama or saz and you will find lots of interesting videos.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 09:55 PM

illustrations I can safely use on my website ...

Musical? Erhard Schön's Devil?.

Safe on a website? Probably not, unless you want an argument.

John

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 12:20 PM

The Armagh uilleann piper and painter Brian Vallely has produced numerous works depicting traditional musicians, several of which have been used as album covers. In his artistic guise he normally employs the name John B. Vallely.

Some of his works can be viewed here - http://www.johnbvallely.com.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Colin Randall
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 08:44 AM

I need to scour every corner for illustrations I can safely use on my website
Salut! Live and, while hugely grateful to Roger Liptrot's folkimages.com , Bryan Ledgard and Alison Chapman McLean among others for permission to reproduce their photos, was delighted to come across the work of Jef Aerosol, whose many gifts include street art. His paintings of Christy Moore and
this one of Sandy Denny are good examples.

I hope that link works - it is to Flickr - but if not, go to http://flickr.com and use the search facility. He has websites, too, and Google should get you to him.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 08:02 AM

A penny wedding was a bit like a rent party. The guests were meant to contribute a small amount towards the couple setting up house. Obviously they'd hope for more than a penny per head but no contribution was refused.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Sue Allan
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 04:31 AM

It doesn't contain any real-life folk musicians as far as I can see, but the magnificent Ivor Hitchens mural at Cecil Sharp House deserves a mention. From the Tate Britain website:
"the artist was asked to incorporate groups of figures performing four well known English country dances (Ring Dance and Morris Dancing at left, Abbots Bromley Horn Dance and the Padstow Hobby Horse at right). A woodland setting was deliberately chosen to counteract the urban surroundings of the building. The main areas of colour were organised to take full advantage of the natural lighting, and range from cooler blues and greens on the sunnier West side of Cecil Sharp House, through to warmer shades on the North East Side. Hitchens designed the work in three main sections, glades seen between trees, balancing the more complex activity of the sides with a quieter open centre section. The centre was intended to act as a foil for the centre of the hall, which would often be crowded with dancers, and was originally to have formed the backdrop for a musicians' platform. A subsequent reversal of this plan - the orchestra now faces the mural - came when the work was nearly completed. The artist has pointed out that it was by this stage too late to take this vital alteration into consideration in terms of the purpose and structure of his design."
I think there is a booklet at Cecil Sharp House which tells all.

There are other paintings by mid twentieth century British artists at 'The House' if memory serves right, including one morris one (William Kimber? Jinky Wells?) And didn't the EFDSS sell one not too long ago to raise funds? Perhaps some Mudcatter knows.

Sue

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 12:42 AM

See the works of Tracy Bigelow Grisman.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:08 PM

Here I'm following up on some of Jack Campin's suggestions:

Here's Wilkie's Blind Fiddler, 1806.

Here's an etching based on Wilkie's Blind Fiddler. Note that the position of the figures is significantly changed.

Wilkie's The Bag-Piper, 1813.

Richard Waitt's The Piper to the Laird of Grant, 1714.

I can't find a portrait of Neil Gow (or Niel Gow?) by Alexander Nasmyth, but he did a couple of Robert Burns.

Here's Linda McCann's web site which contains several small photos of her sculptures (which she calls "models"—why?). I see she has a calendar available.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:36 AM

Here's David Wilkie's Penny Wedding, 1815.

Other artists have used the same theme. Here's David Allan's Penny Wedding, 1795; and his Highland Wedding, 1780.

Can anyone explain the term "penny wedding"?

Here's another image of Henry Raeburn's portrait of Neil Gow, 1793 – not as dark as the one Malcolm Douglas posted.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 10:09 PM

William Sidney Mount, American, 1807–1868:

Rustic Dance After a Sleigh Ride, 1830.

Dancing on the Barn Floor, 1831.

Bar-room Scene, 1835.

Dance of the Haymakers, 1845. Another image

The Power of Music, 1847.

Just in Tune, 1849. A lithograph based on this painting

Right and Left, 1850. (portrait of a fiddler)

The Banjo Player in the Barn, 1855.

Banjo Player, 1856.

The Bone Player, 1856.

Catching the Tune, 1866-67.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:57 AM

Scottish ones:

David Wilkie's "The Penny Wedding", "The Blind Fiddler" and "The Bag-Piper" (early 19th century)

"The Piper of the Laird of Grant" (early 18th century)

Nasmyth's pictures of Niel Gow

Linda McCann's clay sculptures of contemporary Scottish folkies

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Splott Man
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:05 AM

Jane Ridout, fiddler with Murphy's Law (south Wales) paints mainly Irish musicians, you can view her work on
http://www.sylvaticaprints.co.uk/main2.htm?http://www.sylvaticaprints.co.uk/

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Alice
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 12:06 PM

Jim, thanks for those Thomas Hart Benton links. I've always liked the movement and energy of Benton's paintings. I had not seen all of these images before. Wow, "The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley"!

Alice

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 10:10 PM

George Caleb Bingham: The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, oil, 1857.

Thomas Eakins: Negro Boy Dancing, watercolor, 1878.

Dox Thrash: Harmonica Blues, 1937-8, a "carborundum print" – a technique developed by the artist himself.

Margaret Burroughs: The Folksinger – Big Bill - a linoleum print, 1996.

R. Crumb: Heroes of the Blues - a series of 36 portraits of country blues musicians originally designed for trading cards, 1980.

R. Crumb: Blues - a series of 12 prints, 2002.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Alice
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 10:04 AM

My painting of a Montana cowboy with guitar (my uncle Gene) is available as a tee shirt, greeting cards, and soon a poster at this web site if you'd like to view it:
Click here

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 10:26 AM

Here's the web site of Catharine Kingcome, whom Guest JC mentioned above.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: MartinRyan
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 09:02 AM

"By Memory Inspired" by Jack B Yeats, shoiwing two street ballad singers. The title is that of a patriotic song by J.Kells Ingram.

Regards

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 08:41 AM

This seems to be the painting Matthew Edwards referred to:

Dun Aengus Fisherfolk on a Galway Quay by Sean Keating.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST,J C
Date: 07 Mar 06 - 03:54 AM

Painter Katherine Kingcome was living in West Clare (Ireland) some years ago.
She did a number of paintings of local musicians - Bobby Casey, Tom McCarthy, Martin Hayes and others - plus some of local set dancing.
Several became available on postcards.
Don't know where she is now - but she's worth a search.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Mar 06 - 09:21 PM

Noted in *another thread recently, a fairly large number of new works by Mary Cassat were added recently at the ARC website, and the Cassatt Galery includes two works with "musical themes." Neither of these is a "new addition," but I don't think they were mentioned previously here. If you like her work, this gallery is up to 185 Mary Cassatt samples.

At Mary Cassatt, page 7 of 19

The Banjo Lesson, 1894, Pastel on paper, 28 x 22 1/2 inches (71.12 x 57.15 cm)
Number 8 of 10 on this page.

Girl with a Banjo, 1893 – 1894, Pastel on tan wove paper
Number 10 of 10 on this page.

Both of the Mary Cassatt "music" works are pastels, and a little less "finished" than some of her more formal works; but are nice pictures.

Click the thumbnail for larger image.

Banjo Lesson, large image is about 1.2 MB .jpg (about 11 x 14 inch at 72 dpi).

Girl With Banjo only offers an 88 KB file, a bit small by ARC standards (about 7 x 9 inch at 72 dpi).

A side note for someone to research, if interested:

The November 1965 cover of Sing Out! magazine has a photo of a crowd scene from the Newport festival, with insets of a few performers down the left side. I have a rather small image that I obviously got from the web, but I have lost my notes on where it came from. The image I have appears to have been scanned, lop-sided and at low resolution from a stained and dirty copy of the magazine, and couldn't be reasonably printed at useful size for a wall hanging; but if someone's looking for the combination of music and nostalgia, it's out there somewhere. A full-size print, or an original cover, might make a very nice wall decoration in an appropriate setting.

* For the record, the other thread is: BS: Web Art Update. The recent update, including Mary Cassatt and a couple of other recent additions at ARC is within the thread at 27 Feb 06 - 06:50 AM

John

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Jul 04 - 12:27 AM

I found a painting called Dressing for the Dance, but it's by Suzy Papanikolas, not Winslow Homer. All of her paintings have Hawaiian themes, and are well worth a look.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 11:54 PM

Thanks to RangerSteve for suggesting Thomas Hart Benton.
Click here for a page showing thumbnails of many of his paintings and murals.
Here is a selection in large format:
Jessie with Guitar, 1957;
Pop and the Boys, 1963;
The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, 1934;
The Sources of Country Music, 1975;
Missouri Musicians, 1931.

Thomas Eakins, Cowboy Singing

Here's a long list called The Guitar in Pictorial Art. Unfortunately, it contains no pictures or links, but if any of your favorite artists are listed here, it may be worthwhile to try to track down the pictures.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Folkiedave
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 05:44 PM

There is all the stuff done by Hedingham Fair - who are at many festivals. They are always at Sidmouth as I understand.

http://www.hedinghamfair.co.uk/

They are even better in reality and are well worth the cost. They come highly recommended by me!!

Best regards,

folkiedave
www.collectorsfolk.co.uk

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 02:41 PM

What a delightful thread. I like a couple of Winslow Homer's paintings, one called 'Dressing for the Dance', the other called Crack the Whip showing children doing a playground game that I played in my infancy. Not folk music exactly, but folk life certainly, showing our likeness more than our differences. Anybody else know these works? I aim to get prints of them one day.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Abuwood
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 12:14 PM

Thanks guys for posting these links - I really enjoyed the thread

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 25 Jul 04 - 11:49 AM

There are some pictures by modern Irish artists that deserve considering here; the "Irish Impressionist" Walter Osborne (1859-1903) painted a superb Dublin scene of the 1880's St Patrick's Close which shows a boy playing a pennywhistle in the foreground.

Several later artists, such as Jack B. Yeats, Charles Lamb, Sean Keating and Paul Henry, were fascinated by the culture of rural Ireland, in particular the Irish speaking west, and they all painted scenes from Irish life which include some of folk singers, musicians and dancers.

My own favourite is one by Charles Lamb (1893-1964) "Dancing at a Northern Crossroads" 1920, which I can't find reproduced anywhere online. It shows two gaily dressed couples step dancing to a fiddler at a remote crossroads watched by another two gossipping couples sitting by a stone wall.

Jack Yeats drew a fine portrait of a traditional singer which he titled "Now Rise Up, Willie Reilly" - but again I don't think there is an online reproduction. Yeats' illustrations to Synge's sketches of the Aran Islands for the Manchester Guardian are well worth discovering.

Sean Keating painted a group of fishermen and women dancing on a Galway pier in the 1920's entitled "Dun Aengus".

Paul Henry painted some wonderful landscapes in Connemara and especially in Achill Island where this one The Watcher is set, depicting a girl in a bright red skirt gazing out on a stormy grey sea. (Follow the links from this for more paintings by Paul Henry).

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST,Vic at work
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 03:05 PM

I scanned the above fairly quickly so if anyone has mentioned this I'm sorry.
The late great Peter Bellemy produced a couple (maybe more) of wonderful posters, one of himself the other of Martin Carthy, I still have a copy of each and they will go back up when my son reaches an age where he wont eat them or draw on them.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Selchie - (RH)
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 05:13 PM

Simply from the Morris/Dance angle, not paintings. If you want a history of the stained glass windows, try the fascinating site on the BETLEY Windows: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.e.price/betley.htm maintained by John Price, St Albans Morris Men. Interesting comparisions of the history of Morris & lovely images.

Mairi

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Lighter
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 05:12 PM

"Cowboy Singing," by Thomas Eakins (1888).

"The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley," by Thomas Hart Benton (1931).

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 04:48 PM

Jim D -

The lady is probably trying to get the chord in tune. Probably hopeless, as it's a "kid's practice instrument" - (as indicated by no sound hole...)

We'll have to give Fred some music lessons.

John

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 03:46 PM

John In Kansas, I finally got around to viewing the high-res version of the Leighton painting that you provided a better link to. Did you also notice that the "guitar" has 6 strings but only 3 tuning pegs? —unless 3 of those "strings" are actually shadows, which seems unlikely, because the kid seems to be fretting as if there are 5 or 6 strings. Also, it seems odd that the woman is tuning a string at the same time the kid is fretting a chord. I'd say, yeah, Lord Fred wasn't a musician.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: GUEST,Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Apr 04 - 02:23 PM

OK, Grab/Graham. It's easy to find fault. Tell us what you DO like. And be prepared to have your own favorites slammed.

Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
From: open mike
Date: 26 Apr 04 - 02:13 PM

WOO HOO, THANKS FOR THE POST, KANSAS JOHN, ABOUT FOLK LORE, FOLK LIFE, WPA, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AND OTHER INFO! I have compiled some of this info into an article for the local folk music newsletter entitled
Folk Music: a Grand Tradition! Great resources here, thanks. Laurel