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Arts > Music > 1940s-1960s > USA > Country, Folk > The Weavers
The Weavers in the early 1950s, clockwise from right: Fred Hellerman, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert.
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Fred Hellerman, Last of the Weavers Folk Group, Dies at 89 By WILLIAM GRIMES NYT SEPT. 2, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/
Fred Hellerman 1927-2016
singer, guitarist and songwriter and the last surviving member of the Weavers, the quartet that in the 1950s helped usher in the folk music revival
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With songs like “If I Had a Hammer,” “Goodnight Irene” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,” the Weavers brought folk music to a mass audience, paving the way for singers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, who galvanized a young, politically conscious audience in the 1960s.
Mr. Hellerman’s mellow baritone, rock-steady guitar and songwriting talent made him a pillar of the group, whose other members were Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert.
Mr. Hays died in 1981, Mr. Seeger in 2014 and Ms. Gilbert in 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/
Ronnie Gilbert 1926-2015
born Ruth Alice Gilbert
Ronnie Gilbert ('s) crystalline, bold contralto provided distaff ballast for the Weavers, the seminal quartet that helped propel folk music to wide popularity and establish its power as an agent of social change
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/
The Weavers
Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman
The Weavers (...) started playing together in the late 1940s.
Like-minded musicians with progressive political views, they performed work songs, union songs and gospel songs, and became known for American folk standards like “On Top of Old Smoky,” “Goodnight, Irene” (first recorded by the blues singer Lead Belly), Woody Guthrie’s “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” and “The Hammer Song” (a.k.a. “If I Had a Hammer”) by Mr. Seeger and Mr. Hays, as well as songs from other cultures, including “Wimoweh” from Africa and “Tzena Tzena Tzena,” a Hebrew song popular in Israel (though it was written before Israel was established in 1948).
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/
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