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Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38
1859-12-22 - Cecil [James] Sharp,
London England, folk musician
1900-08-23 - Malvina Reynolds,
American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1909-06-14 - Burl Ives,
Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1911-08-01 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless,
priest folk musician
1912-07-14 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie,
folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
1914-09-02 - Tom Glazer,
American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1919-05-03 - Pete Seeger,
NYC, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1924-05-02 - Theodore Bikel,
Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1928-04-09 - Tom Lehrer,
parody/folk singer (That Was The Week That Was)
1930-12-31 - Ala Odetta,
[Odetta Holmes], Birmingham, folk singer/actress
1930-12-31 - Odetta, [Holmes], Birmingham Ala, folk singer (Sanctuary)
1932-09-28 - Víctor Jara,
Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
1933-03-06 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins,
folk musician/composer
1935-03-04 - Nancy Whiskey,
Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936-11-09 - Mary Travers,
Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1937-03-08 - Richard Farina,
American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1937-10-31 - Tom Paxton,
Chicago, folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn)
1940-06-30 - Mark Spoelstra,
American folk singer (d. 2007)
1940-11-17 - Luke Kelly,
Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1940-12-19 - Phil Ochs,
El Paso Tx, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)
1941-01-09 - Joan Baez,
Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941-01-21 - Richie Havens,
Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1942-11-20 - Norman Greenbaum,
Mass, folk singer (Spirit in the Sky)
1945-05-06 - Bob Seger,
Dearborn Mich, folk singer (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
1948-05-11 - Shigeru Izumiya,
Japanese folk musician
1949-11-29 - Stan Rogers,
Canadian folk musician and songwriter (d. 1983)
1950-02-16 - Kazuki Tomokawa,
Japanese acid-folk singer
1951-04-07 - Janis Ian,
NYC, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
1961-07-21 - Amar Singh Chamkila,
Punjabi folk singer
1968-01-28 - Sarah McLachlan,
folk singer (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
1985-05-28 - Colbie Caillat,
American folk singer-songwriter
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 21 of 21
1924-06-23 - Cecil [James] Sharp,
English folk musician, dies at 64
1961-04-29 - Cisco Houston,
American folk singer (b. 1918)
1966-04-30 - Richard Farina,
American writer and folk rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1967-10-03 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie,
US folk singer/guitarist, dies at 55
1976-10-10 - Silvana Armenulic,
Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1984-09-20 - Steve Goodman,
folk singer/guitarist, dies at 36
1989-01-08 - Johnny Jordaan,
[Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
1991-03-22 - Dave Guard,
American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1995-03-19 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless,
priest folk musician, dies at 83
1995-04-14 - Burl Ives,
folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
1995-05-15 - Perry Lederman,
folk singer, dies at 52
1995-09-22 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins,
folk musician/composer, dies at 62
1996-01-01 - Hamish Imlach,
folk singer/comic, dies at 55
2002-02-10 - Dave Van Ronk,
American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2007-08-01 - Tommy Makem,
Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2009-08-07 - Mike Seeger,
American folk musician (b. 1933)
2010-03-04 - Fred Wedlock,
British folk musician (b. 1942)
2011-10-05 - Bert Jansch,
Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)
