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Host Robert Sutton you have a new book out titled nazis on the potomac. What is the basic story you were telling . This is a story that could have very well disappeared. During world war ii in fort hunt, most people consider fort hunt a picnic park, it is halfway between alexandria and mount vernon on the George Washington parkway, but during world war ii it became the site of three programs that were topsecret, that were so topsecret that the people who were involved in the program were sworn t...

By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez...

The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself

A singer who performed alongside Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, he was known for his topical songs, some of which he wrote in minutes.

Music may be the glue of every NYC underground scene This Must Be the Place covers, but Jesse Rifkin’s primary interest is in the community held together by that glue.

For his current exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Fred Eversley has produced a new body of sculptures that realize ideas initially explored by the artist in writing some fifty years ago. The “Cylindrical Lenses,” which consist of six vertically-oriented structures measuring between seven and nine feet tall, mark the first time that Eversley has made free-standing, floor-based works in resin—a material that has been intrinsic to his practice since the very beginnin...

Denver Folklore Center's sale to former manager Ian Dehmel bodes well for the folk-music institution on South Pearl Street.

In the folk music boom in New York in the 1960s, the music of guitarist Mississippi John Hurt was a huge influence on players like Happy Traum, John Sebastian, and others.

From the July 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY STEVE JAMES In the close, dimly lit quarters of the subterranean Gaslight Cafe, on MacDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, a lot of what is now music history and legend happened as the basket was passed and the upstairs neighbors called in noise complaints. Besides hosting germinal performances by…

TUCSON (KVOA) - The Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA) is inviting the Tucson community to celebrate the life of James S. “Big Jim” Griffith on Sept. 25.