KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Folk Music with Rolf Cahn: Eric Von Schmidt in Concert, Boston 1960: Set One, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

FM.1961.12.02.A

Program Series

Folk Music with Rolf Cahn

Program Length

51 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1961-12-02 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Rolf Cahn introduces the first half of a recording of a concert of folk music by Eric von Schmidt, held in the basement of the Boston YMCA, in 1960. Von Schmidt accompanies himself on guitar as he sings a selection of English and American folk songs, with a little bit of Blues and Gospel thrown in for good measure. Von Schmidt who was a mainstay in the folk movement of the 1960s, and who performed with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, Bob Dylan, and Rolf Cahn, among others, died in February of 2007.

Genres

Folk music
Popular music

Musical Selections

You Got To Hurry -- Poor Howard [a.k.a. “Pretty Little Girl With a Red Dress On”] -- Lord Bateman and the Turkish Lady -- Barrelhouse Blues -- Buffalo Skinners -- Nobody Knows You (When Your Down and Out) / Jimmie Cox -- Days of 49

Performers

Eric Von Schmidt, guitar and vocals

Subjects

Folk music
Blues (Music)
Gospel (Music)
Folk music, English

Related places

Boston (Mass.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Cahn, Rolf
Von Schmidt, Eric