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Thread #16903   Message #2710908
Posted By: humbead
28-Aug-09 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: Indian Neck Memories
Subject: RE: Indian Neck Memories
I was at the '61 and '63 Indian Neck events. I am not a musician, but do have a radio show at Williams College, where I had live music played from the local coffee house. The musicians I had on the series of shows were Bill Dawes, Borden Snow, and Mac Benford, who called themselves "The Purple Mountain Ramblers".

They were invited to the '61 Indian Neck, and took me along. I had Bill's portable tape recorder, and recorded a bunch of the '61 concert, at the Montowese Hotel large room, not at all at Woolsey Hall.

I have Dylan, the Greenbriar Boys, Niela Miller, Rev. Gary Davis,
Jim Kweskin, Buz Marten, Sally Schoenfeld, etc., etc. Paul Cadwell would not let me tape him, though. Apparently the Dylan tapes are the first made in front of an audience. They are out on the web, just Google for "Montowesi Hotel" (sic). Lots of hits, pretty much all about those tapes. (Easy to find because of the misspelling of the Montowese Hotel name.)

There was no Indian Neck in '62, but John Nuese (and others, maybe) put on a similar event in Cornwall, that was called the Yelping Hill
festival, or some such.

For Indian Neck in '63, I was living in Cambridge, and they asked me to round up Cambridge musicians to come down there. Jon Scoville was the one who asked me, and I talked about it with the people I knew, and a bunch of us went down there. I didn't have a recorder that year, though.