The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69767   Message #1186790
Posted By: Backstage Manager(inactive)
16-May-04 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Secularist Tradition
Subject: RE: BS: American Secularist Tradition
Art or Frank Hamilton (if you read this),

I'd be very interested in knowing how Guy, Jack and Frank responded or reacted to being introduced as "Jew-boys from New York." As an aside, so far as I know, Jack is the only one of the three who's Jewish.

Once in the 1970s, in the performers' section of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, I overheard a bluegrass musician describe Dave Van Ronk to one of his bandmates as "a New York Jew who sings coon songs."