Please click the yellow "Donate" button to help, thanks! Betsy Siggins and Tom Curren at U Mass Amherst We are writing today to ask your support of our work to remember, to honor, and to keep alive the folk music heritage of New England. Our collections embrace some of the … [Read more...]
2018 UMass Library Fall Reception
September 19, 2018 A celebration of the donation of the archives of Folk New England to the UMass Amherst Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Features a full performance by Jim Rooney and Friends. Folk New England Chair Tom Curren shares his thoughts: We … [Read more...]
Can You Help Folk New England?
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...]
The 11th Annual Folk Music Month in Harvard Square
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...]
Read This About Moon Cusser Oak Bluffs
David Lyman's business card ca. 1963. Courtesy DH Lyman. We'd like to share this great article/memoir by David Lyman. Yes, it's already two years old, but as we build our research files and continue to inventory our collection (and accession new donations), these memories are … [Read more...]