Category Archives: Folk music

Folk singer, Highwaymen member Gil Robbins dies

By doris | Published: April 10, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES – Gil Robbins, a folk singer, guitarist and member of the early 1960s group the Highwaymen, has died. He was 80. Robbins died Tuesday at his home in Esteban Cantu, Mexico, Tracey Jacobs said Saturday night in an email to The Associated Press. Jacobs is a publicist for Robbins’ son, [...]

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Folk singer Susan Reed dies at 84

By doris | Published: April 30, 2010

Full Story at Folk singer Susan Reed dies at 84 – Music LOS ANGELES – Susan Reed, the cabaret singer whom Life magazine saluted in a l955 cover story as the leading lady of the folk music era, has died. She was 84. The singer, who regularly performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and [...]

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Peter, Paul and Mary’s Last Soaring Song

By doris | Published: April 29, 2010

Full Story atLarryKingLive.blogsCNN.com It’s hard to understate the importance and impact of folk music. What started with Woody Guthrie and then was popularized by New York’s Greenwich Village scene in the ‘60’s (and its luminaries including Pete Seeger, Karen Dalton, and Bob Dylan), echoes to this day with any artist that picks up an instrument [...]

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