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Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," [1] Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan, among others, recording his songs.
Pages in category "American folk singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 725 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
American women folk musicians (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "American folk musicians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 364 total.
The Big 3 (folk group) Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys; Big Virginia Sky; Birds of Chicago; The Biscuit Burners; The Bittersweets; Black Lodge Singers; Black Twig Pickers; Blame Sally; Blood Axis; Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys; Bonny Light Horseman (band) The Border Blasters; Borderline (band) Boyd and Wain; Breaux Brothers; The Briarwood ...
Christopher Alden Shaw is a folk musician specializing in the music and folklore of the Adirondack Mountains, recognized nationally as a notable practitioner of this milieu. His first album, Adirondack , a collection of traditional and original tunes, was selected for inclusion in the folk music collection of the Library of Congress . [ 1 ] "
Odetta Sings Folk Songs was one of the best-selling folk albums of 1963. In 1959 she appeared on Tonight with Belafonte, a nationally televised special. She sang "Water Boy" and a duet with Belafonte, "There's a Hole in My Bucket". [10] In 1961, Martin Luther King Jr. called her "The Queen of American Folk Music". [11]
In 2011 there was a full-week, multi-site 40th anniversary celebration at Northwestern University Library, [24] the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and Evanston S.P.A.C.E. Live concerts included the Siegel-Schwall Band with Jim Schwall, Rollo Radford, Corky Siegel and Sam Lay; Megon McDonough; Bonnie Koloc, and Johnny Burns with Paul ...
This is a list of folk musicians, sorted by country, with some sub-categories based on region, style or gender. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.