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Keep The Folk Lamps Trimmed And Burning

July 24, 2020 Brian Quinn

Betsy and Tom at UMass

Dear Friend,   We hope that this letter finds you well and sheltering comfortably. The course that events that have taken since early this March has shaken all of our routines and expectations. There isn’t an aspect of our national lives that hasn’t had its weaknesses … [Read more...]

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Can You Help Folk New England?

November 29, 2017 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...]

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The 11th Annual Folk Music Month in Harvard Square

November 15, 2017 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...]

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Rowland Scherman Donation

February 6, 2015 kathy

Pete Seegar

Friday, February 6, 2015 Yesterday, American photography legend Rowland Scherman donated three additional photographs to the archives of FOLK New England. Each of these new digital prints has been custom-printed by Mr. Scherman from a scan of the original camera negative. The … [Read more...]

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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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