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From BrittDLD1 on 2/23/2013 2:29:38 PM

Well... It seems I'm the newest member of "Folkies".

Most people on the BHO know me for my banjo history postings, or the Oldtime 'banjo duets' I do, with my buddy, Don Borchelt. But I make no claims to being an Oldtime maven. I always say that, "I'm just a Folkie!" (A Banjo History maven? Yes.)

So... I've posted a photo in the "Content" column -- showing my 'Folkie' credentials, going back to the mid-1960s.

The photo is of my best-friend, Clark Barber, and me playing at our High School Hootenanny (North Tonawanda, NY), in the fall of 1966. I was all of 16. We BOTH played banjo and guitar. (But Clark owned the banjo... and I owned the guitar...)

Eventually, I joined folk clubs in Albany, NY (The Pickin' 'n Singin' Gatherin') and at Syracuse University. I co-founded a folksong club in Syracuse (The Salt City Song Miners) 40 years ago, this year -- which is STILL going strong! And I'm on my 28th year, running sound for the Linden Tree Coffeehouse, in Wakefield, MA (North of Boston). My favorite festivals: Fox Hollow (gone long ago), and Old Songs in the Albany, NY area.

Best-- Ed Britt

PS -- Sue Friedman, who was a member of the Salt City Song Miners when we started, later became a co-founder of "The Digital Tradition Folksong Database" (Digitrad) website -- which is now part of "The Mudcat Cafe" site.

www.mudcat.org

5 Comments
	Paul R says: 4/14/2013 7:53:39 PM Hey! Welcome, Ed! (Sorry it took so long.) Your videos with Don Borchelt are inspirational. It's good to see how the two styles mesh so well. North Tonawanda, eh? We (in Toronto) used to joke about Buffalo TV news. It seemed that every night the headline was "Fire in North Tonawanda".
	BrittDLD1 says: 4/15/2013 7:26:16 AM Hi Paul -- Well... Back then, I really appreciated the Folk and Country music shows, which were broadcast on CBC (UHF), from Toronto, across the lake. Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Oscar Brand, even The Porter Waggoner Show. (With a teenage Dolly Parton!) Buffalo didn't carry any of those programs! That Introduced me to so many of the great Folk, Oldtime, Bluegrass, Blues, and Country performers -- years before I had a chance to see any of them in person. Bob Beers started the Fox Hollow Festival (near the NY/Massachusetts border) which I attended for years. I first saw him on one of those CBC shows. I don't remember the NT fires... Must have been after my family moved to the Albany area, in Feb of 1967. (Or maybe I was just so used to hearing about them, that they din't 'register'...)
	Paul R says: 4/15/2013 10:54:04 AM Hi Ed, The "Fire in North Tonawanda" headlines seemed to happen in the early eighties. I grew up in Montreal and we got Buffalo radio in the mid-sixties, late at night, listening to the latest hits before they came to Canada. Buffalo radio kept us a week or two ahead. Bob Beers' daughter, Martha, was married to Eric Nagler, who ran the Toronto Folklore Centre in the early seventies. Small world.
	BrittDLD1 says: 4/15/2013 11:53:26 AM That radio station must have been WKBW. That's what I listened to, for pop music -- before getting into folk. I remember Martha and Eric very well. (They didn't know me...) And remember when they headed up to Toronto.
	mainejohn says: 8/19/2015 7:49:49 AM Hi Ed....I like your blog. I just discovered this group. Hope you're doing well...it's been a while.
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