1997 Death Jeff Buckley, musician, singer, guitarist, alternative rock, folk music genres, performed with Gods and Monsters, dies of an accidental drowning at age 30 1996 Death Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64 1996 Death Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55 1995 Death Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62 1995 Death Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52 1995 Death Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1995 Death Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83 1995 Death Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65 1994 Death Karel Kryl, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime, dies at 49 1991 Event Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vroe Folk" (Free People) 1989 Death Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Dutch folk singer, dies at 64 1984 Death Steve Goodman, folk singer and guitarist, dies at 36 1981 Death Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38 1980 Birthday Conor Oberst, born in Omaha, Nebraska, singer, songwriter, played with Bright Eyes band, Commander Venus, Park Ave, Monsters of Folk 1972 Birthday Chad Folk, CFL cornerback for the Toronto Argonauts 1968 Birthday Charlie Sexton, born in San Antonio, Texas, musician, singer, songwriter, blues, folk, rock genres, guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band, also played with Arc Angels band 1968 Birthday Sarah McLachlan, folk singer, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 1967 Death Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, U.S. folk singer and guitarist, dies at 55 1967 Birthday Dar Williams, born in Mount Kisco, New York, singer, songwriter, guitarist, pop folk genre, albums include, 'The Honesty Room', 'End of The Summer' 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Birthday Jeff Buckley, born in Anaheim, California, musician, singer, guitarist, alternative rock, folk music genres, performed with Gods and Monsters 1965 Event Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar 1965 Event Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival 1963 Death Mart Saar, composer, organist, combined folk music with contemporary sounds, composed choir, solo, piano music, dies at 81 1961 Event Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village 1956 Birthday Richard Farina, folk singer, Reflections in a Crystal Wind 1956 Birthday Shawn Colvin, born in Vermillion, South Dakota, singer, songwriter, guitarist, rock, contemporary folk genres, influenced by Joni Mitchell 1955 Event D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad 1951 Birthday Janis Ian, born in New York City, lesbian and folk rocker, At 17 1946 Birthday Jonathan Edwards, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, folk singer, songwriter, musician, folk singer, known for hits 'Sunshine' and 'Shanty' 1946 Birthday Donovan, Leitch, born in Maryhill, Scotland, guitarist/folk singer, Mellow Yellow 1945 Death John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies 1945 Birthday Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa, Canada, folk rock vocalist, Waterwalker 1945 Birthday Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down 1944 Birthday Karel Kryl, born in Kromenz, Czechoslovakia, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime 1943 Birthday 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 Birthday Judith Durham, born Melbourne, Australia, Judith Mavis Cock, singer, jazz, lead vocalist for The Seekers, Australian popular folk music group 1942 Birthday Norman Greenbaum, Massachusetts, folk singer, Spirit in the Sky 1941 Birthday 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 Birthday Richie Havens, Brooklyn, folk singer, Here Comes the Sun 1941 Birthday Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate 1940 Birthday Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over 1940 Birthday Sylvia Tyson, born in Chatham, Canada, guitarist, singer, songwriter, sang with Ian Tyson in folk duo Ian and Sylvia in the 1960's 1940 Birthday Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic 1937 Birthday Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn 1936 Birthday 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 Birthday Mary Travers, born in Louisville, Kentucky, folk singer, Peter Paul and Mary 1933 Birthday Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician and composer 1930 Birthday Ala Odetta, Odetta Holmes, Birmingham, folk singer/actress 1930 Birthday Odetta, Holmes, Birmingham, Alabama, folk singer, Sanctuary 1929 Birthday Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival 1928 Birthday Tom Lehrer, parody and folk singer, That Was The Week That Was 1924 Death Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64 1924 Birthday Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer and actor, Russians Are Coming 1924 Birthday Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Amsterdam folk vocalist 1920 Birthday Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist, Draw Me a Laugh 1919 Birthday Manke Nelis, Cornelis Pieters, Dutch folk vocalist, Small Yodel Boy 1919 Birthday Pete Seeger, New York City, folk singer, Weaver, Goodnight Irene 1913 Birthday 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 Birthday Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, This Land Is Your Land 1911 Birthday Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician 1909 Birthday Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1904 Birthday Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist 1902 Birthday Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician, Delta Blues 1896 Birthday Gary Davis, born in Laurens, South Carolina, blues/folk guitarist, A Little More Faith 1888 Birthday Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist, Atlas over Svensk Folk culture 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1882 Birthday Mart Saar, born in Hupassaare, Estonia, composer, organist, combined folk music with contemporary sounds, composed choir, solo, piano music 1878 Birthday Hermann Claudius, German folk poet, Meister Bertram 1870 Birthday John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist 1868 Birthday W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk 1862 Birthday Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer 1859 Birthday Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician 1852 Death Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 1799 Birthday Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian poet, national anthem, folk song 1783 Birthday Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer 1783 Birthday Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus
