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Can You Help Folk New England?

November 29, 2017 By Brian Quinn

Club 47 July-August 1966

Folk New England has joined forces with the University of Massachusetts Special Collections Department About six decades ago, a movement began here in New England that has served to inspire our vision and enrich our lives throughout all the ensuing years. During a time of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Folk New England Collection, preservation work, vintage photographs folk music Tagged With: Folk, Folk New England Collection

The 11th Annual Folk Music Month in Harvard Square

November 15, 2017 By Brian Quinn

Folk Music Month

Each November, The Harvard Square Business Association, in partnership with FOLK New England and Passim, celebrates Folk Music month in Harvard Square. The Square has long been an epicenter of critical thinking and social and political reform and nowhere was it more rampant than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Folk New England Collection, Harvard Square Business Association, vintage photographs folk music Tagged With: Annual Folk Music History Month, Folk New England Collection, vintaage folk revival photographs

Premiere of Documentary WELCOME HERE AGAIN

March 15, 2017 By Brian Quinn

Premiere of Documentary WELCOME HERE AGAIN: A Recording Session with the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra Sunday, March 19, 2017, 3:30 pm Red River Theaters, 11 S. Main St., Concord, NH 03301 On Sunday March 20, 2016, sixteen musicians came together in the Chapel at … [Read more...]

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What Bob Dylan Learned In Harvard Square

December 11, 2016 By Brian Quinn

What Bob Dylan Learned In Harvard Square

For Christopher Ricks and other professorial types around Boston, Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize may help validate their interest in the singer as a literary figure. But in addition to celebrating Dylan’s impact inside the academy, we should also celebrate the legacy he left behind in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Coffee House

The video of Betsy Siggins @ the Cambridge Forum

December 5, 2016 By Brian Quinn

Betsy Siggins

Conversation with Betsy Siggins: Forever Young, Folk Music in Harvard Square from Cambridge Community Television on Vimeo. On November 16th, the Harvard Square Business Association hosted A Conversation with Betsy Siggins: Forever Young, Folk Music in Harvard Square, at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Betsy Siggins

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The mission of Folk New England is to foster appreciation and preservation of the indigenous folk music of the New England area through collection, preservation, and dissemination of both primary and secondary sources.  We work with individuals, families, musicians, scholars, students, and ordinary folk to increase and perpetuate the collection and understanding of the diverse common musical heritage of the region.





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