folksinging

As an engineering student at Amherst College in the late 1950s, Mr. West initially focused more on his folksinging hobby than his studies.

Computer Legend Tom West Dies Stephen Miller 2011

Along with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman, he formed the first commercially successful folksinging group, The Weavers, who's version of Leadbelly's classic "Goodnight, Irene" was a runaway hit.

Holly Cara Price: Pete Seeger Continues to Inspire "Tomorrow's Children" Holly Cara Price 2010

Along with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman, he formed the first commercially successful folksinging group, The Weavers, who's version of Leadbelly's classic "Goodnight, Irene" was a runaway hit.

Holly Cara Price: Pete Seeger Continues to Inspire "Tomorrow's Children" 2010

Along with Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman, he formed the first commercially successful folksinging group, The Weavers, who's version of Leadbelly's classic "Goodnight, Irene" was a runaway hit.

Holly Cara Price: Pete Seeger Continues to Inspire "Tomorrow's Children" 2010

They were making a little fun of the tradition of filking, a brand of folksinging that could be found at cons.

Archive 2009-05-01 James Gurney 2009

There are readings by authors, autographings, costume competitions, filksinging fannish folksinging, as it were, parties, and a chance to escape from the mundane world for little while.

Archive 2009-11-01 Steve Perry 2009

There are readings by authors, autographings, costume competitions, filksinging fannish folksinging, as it were, parties, and a chance to escape from the mundane world for little while.

Resistance is Futile Steve Perry 2009

How an unedjumacated non-college-attending former-soldier-slob folksinging happy idiot such as myself became a copy editor and proofreader for Viking/Penguin is a long, tedious story, but suffice to say someone must have taken pity on me.

The Elegant Variation: ChristianBauman 2005

How an unedjumacated non-college-attending former-soldier-slob folksinging happy idiot such as myself became a copy editor and proofreader for Viking/Penguin is a long, tedious story, but suffice to say someone must have taken pity on me.

GUEST: COPYEDITING FOR FUN AND PROFIT ChristianBauman 2005

"They both wanted to help their people, the working class, the people hit by the Dust Bowl and everything," Wooley said of Guthrie, the folksinging political activist, and Wills, the king of Western swing.

Expecting Rain NewsOK 2010