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Stock | Folk City concert for the Museum of the City of New York

24 images Created 21 Jun 2013

The Museum of the City of New York held a concert on June 20, 2013 to benefit a forthcoming exhibit titled "Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival. Participants included Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Oscar Brand, Happy Traum and others directly involved in the revival of the 19560s and 60s, along with folk artists and singer-songwriters who came later, like Josh White, Jr., Lucy Kaplansky, John Wesley Harding, and Langhorne Slim.
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  • John Platt, radio host at WFUV, on stage at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Emcee John Wesley Harding performing at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Izzy Young, founder of the Folklore Center in New York, and owner of the Folklore Centrum in Stockholm, speaks of the early days of the folk music revival in New  York City.
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  • Folk and blues singer Josh White, Jr. on stage at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Folk and blues singer Josh White, Jr. on stage at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, who came to the New York folk scene in the 1980s on stage at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, who came to the New York folk scene in the 1980s on stage at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • A. C. Newman, founder of the group The New Pornographers, sings at the Folk City benefit concert. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Happy Traum, an early participant in the Washington Square folk scene, and the first artist to record Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind."
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  • David Hajdu, author of "Positively 4th Street," a book about the lives of Joan Baez, Mimi Fariña, Bob Dylan and Richard Fariña, reading an excerpt relating to New York.
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  • Singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim performs at the Folk City benefit concert. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim performs at the Folk City benefit concert. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • David Amram playing the pennywhistle. Langhorne Slim and John Wesley Harding are to his right.
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  • Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, waits to go on stage at the Folk City benefit concert. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Peter Yarrow, on the right, and David Broza, perform together at the Folk City benefit concert. Yarrow is best known as a founder of the group Peter, Paul and Mary, and Broza is an Israeli singer-songwriter.
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  • David Broza, an Israeli singer-songwriter, with Peter Yarrow behind him, at the Folk City benefit concert. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Composer and musician David Amram playing pennywhistle. To is right are Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza and Peter Yarrow.
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  • Peter Yarrow, founder of the revival group Peter, Paul and Mary, performing at the Folk City benefit concert. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Oscar Brand, considered a founding father of the American folk music revival, takes the stage with Josh White, Jr. Brand is now 93, and still hosts the radio show "Folksong Festival."
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  • Pete Seeger, left, honorary chair of the concert, cups his ear to get the audience to sing louder. On his right is Tom Chapin.
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  • Peter Yarrow, holding the mic, leads in a song as Happy Traum plays guitar beside him. On the far right, playing banjo, is Pete Seeger.
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  • From left to right, Oscar Brand, Josh White, Jr., Pete Seeger, and Tom Chapin at the Folk City benefit concert at the Museum of the City of New York. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • Grammy award-winning musician Tom Chapin plays 12-string guitar at the concert's end. The concert was held to support a forthcoming exhibit on the folk msusic revival in New York in the 1950s and 60s.
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  • After the concert, Happy Traum, on the right, has a chat with Izzy Young, founder of the Folklore Center in New York, the former center of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s.
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