The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3532   Message #18129
Posted By: Susan of DT
22-Dec-97 - 09:10 PM
Thread Name: young folkies?
Subject: RE: young folkies?
Petra - we are all young, just not necessarily by your standard. I will be 50 in a couple of weeks. We used to sing in Girl Scouts and summer camp. The first Mitch Miller and then Hootenany were on TV and the whole family watched both. My father then brought home some Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte records for my brother and I to listen to. The Outing Club sang in college and then I got to Fox Hollow as my first folk festival in about 1970. Bands never interested me particularly, but single or duo performers did. I started writing down the songs we sang in Outing Club before I left college and from that the DT was eventually born.