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Thread #89546   Message #1689934
Posted By: Abby Sale
10-Mar-06 - 08:28 AM
Thread Name: Happy! - Mar 10 (Manny Greenhill)
Subject: Happy! - Mar 10 (Manny Greenhill)

Grand Impresario and founder of Folklore Productions in the 50's

Manuel "Manny" Greenhill

was born in NY 3/10/1916
(d.4/14/1996)

He brought us or occasionally represented Josh White, Odetta, Theodore Bikel, Flatt & Scruggs, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Lightnin' Hopkins, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Reverend Gary Davis, Jesse Fuller, Taj Mahal, John Renbourn, Robin Williamson, The Battlefield Band and The Weavers and also Pete Seeger as a solo during the HCUA (HUAC) blacklist years. See obit at Folklore Productions, still run by son, Mitch

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