Just saw this post and realized that mine was redundant.

Here's what I said on it.

Subject: Obit: Travis Edmundsen (May 9, 2009
From: Stringsinger - PM
Date: 12 May 09 - 02:30 PM

Trav of Bud and Travis is gone. Please supply details (for those of you who knew him).

I've had good memories of Bud and Travis since I used to jam with them at the Gate of Horn in Chicago. They were fine singers and musicians and great entertainers.

Trav really knew Hispanic music. He was an anthro major at U. of Arizona (I think.)
He taught me the Cuban Guajira beat on the guitar.

Bud and Trav made Hispanic music popular to the folk crowd. They presented it faithfully and musically.

Last time I talked to Trav he said something about "burning a bean, together". Not sure what that was but it may have been about coffee (?)

Also, they were folk singers in a way because they introduced many songs to audiences that would not have heard them otherwise. They were folk singers in that they knew a lot about the material they sang having researched it pretty carefully and did their homework.
Does this make them folksingers? I think so because they sang folk songs. They got flack from Alan Lomax because of the way they presented them.

Is Pete Seeger a folk singer? Is Joan Baez a folk singer? TJ, not sure we are on the same page here.

Many of the UK performers are coming to folk material second-hand but they attempt to do it in a "traditional" manner. Are they folk singers?

Trav will be missed because he was an empathic musician, knowledgeable and entertaining, informative and knew the music he played from the inside out.

Adios Amigo.

Pancho (aka Frank)

Frank