Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,blinddrunkal
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 07:30 AM

2 great blues singers - Portland Bill and Accrington Stanley!

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,Reliza
Date: 31 Oct 10 - 06:56 PM

Not to belabor the point, but: WILL HOLT. In case you don't knonw, I've started a campaign to save, resurrect, and preserve his music for the future. holt was a folk/cabaret singer and songwriter("Lemon Tree," "Raspberries, Strawberries," and "Broadway is a Tame Street (Compared to Our Main Street)," and a number of others. He was at his best, however, performing the Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht canon. If you have a Will Holt record and want to share it with the world and the future world, get in touch with me ([e-mail]), and I'll give you the instructions for FedExing me the album (FedEx charges both ways to be charged to my account) and within the same week, you'll receive back both your original album as well as the current CDs for the collection. You will, of course, receive the complete set of CDs once I've collected as many albums as I can find. All contributors will be listed in the liner notes (credit where credit is due, after all). So please search your collections and see if you find the odd Will Holt album lying around.

r

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 11:49 AM

Sadly - Esme Ryder has just died , I was at her funeral today

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Beer
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 12:56 PM

Allan Fraser from Fraser and DeBolt (Dance Hall Girls).
Bill Garrett and Sue Lothrop (That's How the Summer Slips Away).
Chris Crilly Barde ?– The Kerry Huntsman [ Irish Folk Music ]
Cliff Edwards The Bells - (Fly Little White Dove)
David Francey (Morning Train)
Hughie McDonall (Hey John Prine)
Bruce Murdoch (Live in Greenwich Village 1968)
Bob Dylan
Then there is me, but I don't come close to any of these musicians. The above are all on YouTube as well. So many more I could mention but then there are so many more that have passed on as well.

Adrien

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Sol
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 01:01 PM

We've lost a host of legends over the past year or so and also loads of in to pick up the slack left from our departing old timers.
We're a dying breed, I'm afraid ..... literally!

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Sol
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 01:06 PM

Sorry, don't know what happened to my post above. The text went haywire.
Here's what I meant to write...

We've lost a host of legends over the past year or so, and also loads of ordinary folkies. There's not enough young blood coming in to pick up the slack left from departing old timers.
We're a dying breed, I'm afraid ...... literally!

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 01:26 PM

At 91 the wonderful Alice Gerrard is still touring occasionally and doing workshops.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,M Siirdewaye
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 02:07 PM

I'm surprised not to see Willie Watson on this list! A little bit more popular compared to some but still definitely alive. his website

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 02:28 PM

They might have been talking about a different Willie Watson, he is comparatively a spring chicken.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Mark Ross
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 03:06 PM

It's 16 years later, and I'm still around. when I was 17 people were laying good odds that I wouldn't see 21. Go figure.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers Who Are Still Alive
From: Beer
Date: 25 Feb 26 - 03:13 PM

Good one Mark LOL