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Thread #38321   Message #539271
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
31-Aug-01 - 05:49 PM
Thread Name: Top 20 Folk Songs From 50's & 60's
Subject: THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL SONGBOOK
Information: I was a Newport Folk Festival trustee during most of its run, and in the early sixties, I was asked by Alfred Music Publishing to do this book for them. Other Newport trustees agreed. I asked each performer who'd been a festival participant up to that time, to choose a favorite song that he/she had sung at the Festival. Each of them provided a photograph and a bio, or wrote about his/her life in letters to me (I still have the originals). The book had a short life, as it took the publishers a long time to issue it, had meantime moved their offices to California and the people interested in the Newport Festival had gone. That's life! I'm sure there were very few sold; I have only two of them in my library. Jean Ritchie