During the summertime there is a wonderful program being offered by LIU in collaboration with some local folks that offer a number of courses for Senior Citizens---Senior Citizens--you know---us old folks. The website for them is this .
Right now they are offering many courses of interest and one of them is a wonderful class in Folk Music. That course is, in the instructor's own words, and overview of the subject. I am hoping to be able to offer, in the fall, a class that will focus each week (classes meet once a week) on a particular artist, his/her music and history. Some may even appear there.
I have found a keen interest in the present offering and do believe this can fill the void left by an overview. So many of the "students" were asking for more information on a given artist.
Please contact the link above if you are interested in signing up for something like this and also to urge them to present such a class. While I would certainly entertain suggestions about who to focus on I have quite a few artists in mind. Not necessarily ones you might have thought of. The "students" seem to like discovering new things---new to them, in any case.
Think of this---artists that have been quickly covered in the overview class---Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, etc;
Would people not like to know of such as Cisco Houston, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Jean Ritchie, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, and ever so many more---including Kate Campbell, Eric Bogle, Hank Williams, and so many more in the later eras?
So---contact LIU if there is interest in this.
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