Cisco Houston

Cisco Houston

male, deceased (1961)
Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston was an American folk singer who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of...
David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer

male, 73 years old
David Hackett Fischer (b. December 2, 1935) is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. His major works...
Ella Jenkins

Ella Jenkins

female, 85 years old
Ella Jenkins Dubbed “The First Lady of the Children’s Folk Song” by the "Wisconsin State Journal", Ella Jenkins has been a leading performer of chi...
Clarence Ashley

Clarence Ashley

male, deceased (1967)
Clarence "Tom" Ashley (September 29 1895 (or 1885?) - June 2 1967) was a 20th-century American clawhammer banjo player and singer. Born in Bristol,...
Hazel Dickens

Hazel Dickens

female, 74 years old
Hazel Dickens (born June 1, 1935, Mercer County, West Virginia) is an American bluegrass singer. She was the eighth child of an eleven-child mining...
William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner

male, deceased (1910)
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most...

David Holt

male
David Holt is a four-time Grammy Award winner for his work as a musician. He is dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music...
Harold Courlander

Harold Courlander

male, deceased (1996)
Harold Courlander (September 18, 1908 - March 15, 1996), noted novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, was recognized as one of the world's...

Sammy Walker

male, 57 years old
Sammy Walker (born in 1952 near Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter. Influenced by the folk and country sounds of Bob Dylan, Woodie...
Bill Spence

Bill Spence

male, 69 years old
Bill Spence (born August 12, 1940 in Iowa City, Iowa) is a hammered dulcimer player from New York. Bill took up the hammered dulcimer after hearing...