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By Sean Smith, Contributor to BostonIrish February 1, 2021 Sean Smith, Contributor to BostonIrish Maggie Holtzberg, manager of the Folk Arts & Heritage Program for state agency Mass Cultural Council, began playing traditional fiddle styles in her teens. "I do think that being a musician yourself can be helpful in evaluating and assessing musicians in other traditions. You feel you’re with family, because you have something in common."   Boston-area resident Maggie Holtzberg’s job involves looking after one of Massachusetts’s most prized attributes: its folk traditions. As manager of t...

How would you like to be invited to a party at Adlai Stevenson’s house, with such fellow guests as John McCloy, Archibald MacLeish, Aaron Copeland and Lauren Bacall? It’s easy. All you have to do is get yourself a banjo and start practicing up on folk songs. Well, it’s not really all that easy. You’ve got to nip around the world, spreading good will for the U.S.A., and singing in 27 languages. It also helps to catch dysentery, worms and a touch of hepatitis. A man who chose this long and devious route to get invited to a party is Bill Crofut, young, upcoming folk-singer wh...