What a powerful woman. I was lucky enough to see her at a Mariposa Festival in the late sixties. The buzz at the festival was that Dylan was gonna show up, and of course the vast majority of the young folks there seemed oblivious to the bevy of fine traditional artists. Thank Gawd for another strong opinionated woman, Estelle Klein. She INSISTED that Mariposa hire traditional musicians, Native artists, and (Glory be) Feminist songwriters, as well as the "budget blowers" who were on the "folk charts". Estelle lives quietly outside of Toronto, almost entirely forgotten by the last twenty years of folkies.

Rick