Folk Musician Mugs
Description: Elizabeth Eaton "Connie" Converse (born August 3, 1924 - disappeared 1974) was an American musician active in New York City in the 1950s. Her work is among the earliest-known recordings of the singer-songwriter genre of music. Converse left her family home in 1974 in search of a new life and was never heard from again. Her music was largely unknown until it was featured on a 2004 radio show and released on the album How Sad, How Lovely in March 2009.
Description: On September 13 and 14, 1969, a selection of the finest folk singers and musicians in the world convened on the edge of Highway 1 in Big Sur, California for a rather intimate gathering of peace, love, music, and a farewell to summer. Set to a backdrop of some of America’s most glorious scenery, the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival continued to be an 'anti-festival festival,' considered by attendees as the antithesis of the more commercial events, though the artists considered it an antidote to them. The non-profit 1969 event maintained the tradition of staying small through minimal advertising. It's estimated that 5,000 paid to enter the festival each day, and another 2,000 or so listened freely by camping along the highway out front.
Description: Gordon Lightfoot was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the '60s and '70s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter, and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend. His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.
Description: 1970 Philadelphia Folk Festival (the 9th annual) at Old Poole Farm featured legendary artists like Doc Watson, John Hartford, John Denver, David Bromberg, Bonnie Raitt, Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Folk Festival 1970 Philadelphia : Retro vintage 70s folk music Mug
by Ken Savana
$13 $18
Description: Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (MMUJC) was a band that played traditional jug band folk music using traditional musical instruments such as guitar, mandolin, and banjo, combined with homemade instruments, including washtub bass, washboard, kazoo, and, eponymously, a jug, played by blowing into it as if it were a brass instrument. MMUJC recorded a single self-titled album live at the Top of the Tangent coffee house in Palo Alto, California in July 1964.
