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1997 Jeff Buckley, musician, singer, guitarist, alternative rock, folk music genres, performed with Gods and Monsters, dies of an accidental drowning at age 30
1996 Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64 1996 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55 1995 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62 1995 Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52 1995 Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1995 Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83 1995 Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65 1994 Karel Kryl, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime, dies at 49 1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vroe Folk" (Free People) 1989 Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Dutch folk singer, dies at 64 1984 Steve Goodman, folk singer and guitarist, dies at 36 1981 Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38 1972 Chad Folk, CFL cornerback for the Toronto Argonauts 1968 Sarah McLachlan, folk singer, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 1967 Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, U.S. folk singer and guitarist, dies at 55 1966 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Jeff Buckley, born in Anaheim, California, musician, singer, guitarist, alternative rock, folk music genres, performed with Gods and Monsters 1965 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar 1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival 1963 Mart Saar, composer, organist, combined folk music with contemporary sounds, composed choir, solo, piano music, dies at 81 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village 1956 Richard Farina, folk singer, Reflections in a Crystal Wind 1955 D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad 1951 Janis Ian, born in New York City, lesbian and folk rocker, At 17 1946 Jonathan Edwards, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, folk singer, songwriter, musician, folk singer, known for hits 'Sunshine' and 'Shanty' 1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies 1945 Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa, Canada, folk rock vocalist, Waterwalker 1945 Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down 1944 Karel Kryl, born in Kromenz, Czechoslovakia, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime 1943 Bert Jansch, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, folk artist, acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Pentangle, winner, BBC Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award 1943 Judith Durham, born Melbourne, Australia, Judith Mavis Cock, singer, jazz, lead vocalist for The Seekers, Australian popular folk music group 1943 Donovan, Leitch, Scotland, guitarist/folk singer, Mellow Yellow 1942 Norman Greenbaum, Massachusetts, folk singer, Spirit in the Sky 1941 Dan Hicks, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, singer, songwriter, performed with dance bands, performed on Time Out For Teens radio program, part of San Francisco's folk music scene 1941 Richie Havens, Brooklyn, folk singer, Here Comes the Sun 1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate 1940 Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over 1940 Sylvia Tyson, born in Chatham, Canada, guitarist, singer, songwriter, sang with Ian Tyson in folk duo Ian and Sylvia in the 1960's 1940 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic 1937 Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn 1936 Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin 1936 Mary Travers, born in Louisville, Kentucky, folk singer, Peter Paul and Mary 1933 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician and composer 1930 Ala Odetta, Odetta Holmes, Birmingham, folk singer/actress 1930 Odetta, Holmes, Birmingham, Alabama, folk singer, Sanctuary 1929 Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival 1928 Tom Lehrer, parody and folk singer, That Was The Week That Was 1924 Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64 1924 Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer and actor, Russians Are Coming 1924 Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Amsterdam folk vocalist 1920 Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist, Draw Me a Laugh 1919 Manke Nelis, Cornelis Pieters, Dutch folk vocalist, Small Yodel Boy 1919 Pete Seeger, New York City, folk singer, Weaver, Goodnight Irene 1913 Gyula David, born in Hungary, composer, violinist, conductor, studied at the Liszt academy, conducted for the National Theatre 1945 - 1949, wrote folk song music and 12 tone serial music 1912 Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, This Land Is Your Land 1911 Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician 1909 Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1904 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist 1902 Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician, Delta Blues 1896 Gary Davis, born in Laurens, South Carolina, blues/folk guitarist, A Little More Faith 1888 Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist, Atlas over Svensk Folk culture 1884 Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1882 Mart Saar, born in Hupassaare, Estonia, composer, organist, combined folk music with contemporary sounds, composed choir, solo, piano music 1878 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet, Meister Bertram 1870 John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist 1868 W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk 1862 Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer 1859 Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician 1852 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 1799 Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian poet, national anthem, folk song 1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer 1783 Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus |
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