Pete’s 90th Birthday Party at Madison Square Garden
May 3rd, 2009 WASN’T THAT A PARTY! Pete Seeger celebrated his 90th birthday with 18,000 friends and family…
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GRAMMY® AWARD TO TOM Tom was honored with a 2009 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Recording Academy during the…
Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs and I met when he was playing The Third Step around the corner from The Gaslight.…
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The great thing about folk festivals is seeing and hearing old friends; this goes for both performers and…
Doc Watson
One night in 1961 or 62, somebody (John Herald? Patrick Sky?) rushed into The Gaslight in Greenwich Village…
Pete Seeger
I first saw Pete Seeger at Carnegie Hall in 1960. He was doing a series of hootenannies for Sing…
Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt’s first appearance in the north occurred at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. His legend had…
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