The URJ’s Kutz Camp, known for being the birthplace of modern spiritual Jewish folk music, celebrates its 50th anniversary this Fourth of July weekend. Hundreds of Kutz alumni will join Union ...
I came up being into punk rock and folk music, and [Hebrew school] was very preppy and sports-oriented, so I always felt that kind of estrangement from the Jewish community as I knew it.” ...
Born May 31, 1938, to Jewish Ukrainian parents in New York ... He took violin lessons as a child, later switching to guitar as he came to embrace the work of such folk-music icons as Woody Guthrie and ...
John McCutcheon, a legend in the folk music world, has addressed some of America’s greatest injustices over the last 50 years ...
Iâ m Jewish. Iâ m not particularly religious ... I make the beats and put them up on an mp3 player and plug it in and sing over it. Why do you think folk and folk-punk music is becoming so popular ...
Peter Yarrow – one-third of the beloved folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, whose anthems epitomized the 1960s protest movement – died Tuesday in New York.
Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...
Yarrow wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest 1960s hits, including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Day Is Done." ...