Last Sunday, the Coen Brothers and T Bone Burnett organized a tribute to folk music at Town Hall in NYC, with legacy and contemporary artists from both folk and rock coming together to celebrate the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s (The Coen's new film "Inside Llewyn Davis" explores its early days.) Reviews of the concert reminded me of how much Gloria loved and wrote about all the folk artists that she saw perform in clubs like The Bitter End, The Gaslight, Cafe Wha and The Village Gate. Some of her favorites that made it into the pages of 16 Magazine were Bob Dylan (he was even on the cover in April '66!), Judy Henske, Tom Rush, Joan Baez, Eric Anderson (she introduced him on Ed Hurst's "Aquarama" Philadelphia variety show when she co-hosted,) Odetta, Richard and Mimi Farina, Judy Collins, and ...
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