Gary Michael Green

male, 55 years old
Gary Michael Green was once known as one of America's most intense folk singers, civil rights and union organizers and advocate of Native American...
Sidney Robertson Cowell

Sidney Robertson Cowell

female, deceased (1995)
Sidney Robertson Cowell (born Sidney William Hawkins in San Francisco, California, United States, 1903; d. 1995) was an American ethnographer and...
Peter La Farge

Peter La Farge

male, deceased (1965)
Peter La Farge (April 30, 1931 - October 27, 1965) was a New York-based folksinger and songwriter of the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for his...
Gus Cannon

Gus Cannon

male, deceased (1979)
Gus Cannon (b. Red Banks, Mississippi, September 12, 1883 - d. Memphis, October 15, 1979) was an African American blues musician who helped to...
Mark Spoelstra

Mark Spoelstra

male, deceased (2007)
Mark Warren Spoelstra was an American singer-songwriter and folk and blues guitarist. He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He began his...
Gordon Bok

Gordon Bok

male, 70 years old
Gordon Bok is a folklorist and singer/songwriter who was born on October 31, 1939 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Camden, Maine. His first album,...
Sonny Terry

Sonny Terry

male, deceased (1986)
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greenboro, Georgia - 11 March 1986, Mineloa, New York) was a blues musician. He was...
Moses Hadas

Moses Hadas

male, deceased (1966)
Moses Hadas was an American teacher, one of the leading classical scholars of the twentieth century, and a translator of numerous works. Raised in...
Moe Asch

Moe Asch

male, deceased (1986)
Moses ("Moe") Asch (born December 2, 1905, Warsaw; died October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in...
Alasdair Clayre

Alasdair Clayre

male, deceased (1984)
Alasdair George S. Clayre (9 October 1935 - 10 January 1984) was a British man of many talents: author, broadcaster, singer-songwriter, and...