Folk Music Index - Donors

In this section, I list the folks who in one way or another have contributed recorded or printed sources to the index.

Several people have donated valuable out of print recordings. I especially want to thank Sandy Paton of Folk Legacy Records for providing a large number of his out of print but essential folk music recordings for inclusion in the database. Sandy's contribution to traditional musics through his collecting and recording activities are immense, and I am very pleased to be able provide pointers to these recordings in the index.

Others who have contributed important material include:

Thanks are extended to the increasing number of performers, performer's families, or agents who have donated their current tradition-based recordings and who thus help demonstrate the living folk music traditions in today's high tech world.   My apologies in advance for those names I may have inadvertantly omitted. These performers include:

Alicia May
Tobias Anderson
Atwater-Donnelly
Bob Bellamy
Beltaine
Dan Berggren
Bing Bang Boys (Canote Brothers)
Boiled Buzzards
Curt Bouterse
Kathy Boyd and Phoenix Rising
E. C. Bradley
Briarose
Broadside Electric
Brothers of the Baladi
Bonnie Carol
Cascade Mountain Dreamers
Greg Clarke
Richard, Colombo
Judy Cook
Sharon Cort
Lea Coryell
Debra Cowan
Roy Crawford
Crooked Road Stringband
Tim (Slim) Crosby
John Cunningham
Dave and Cindy
Bruce Davies
Jinx Davis
Deja Blue
Down Trodden StringBand
Dianne Dugaw
Anne and Ridley Enslow
Etcetera String Band
Falderal String Band
Anne Feeney
Peter Feldmann
Fiddlin' Red and Patti O'Farrell
Flat Mountain Girls
Mary Flower
Annika Forrest
Fossils
Jeni Foster
Freebo
From the Waterside
Gabriel's Gate
General Strike
Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen
Gingerthistle
Gerri Gribi
Brittany Haas
Hart and Blech
Bob Hay and the Jolly Beggars
Heartstrings
Merritt Herring
Dick Holdstock
Frank Jones
Fletcher Jowers
Kate and Lou
J. Michael Kearsey
Jim Lampos
Bonnie Leigh
Dan Levenson
Dave Lippman
Rose Laughlin
Margaret MacArthur
Mo Mack
Dan McIlHenny
Misty River
Modesty Forbids
Dave Morehouse
Mountain Thyme
Jeannie Murphy and Scott Marckx
The Mysterious Redbirds
Arnie Naiman and Chris Coole
Pleasant Family
Kate Power and Steve Einhorn
Stan Ransom
James Reams
Harvey Reid
Rite of Spring
Mary Rose
Rosehip Ramblers
Joe Ross
John Rossbach
San Francisco Blue
Shantalla
Lauren Sheehan
Smithfield Fair
Trashcan Joe
True West String Band
Paddy Tutty
Wanderers
Bob Webb
Dick Weissman
Whiskey Puppy
Mariide Widmann


Thanks also go to donors of non-original copies of recordings including: Tina Aridas, Kilby Spencer, Jason Myer, Julie Pennick, Don Bille, Bill Hicks, Dick Swain, and the Lost World String Band. Finally I would like to acknowledge copies of out of print recordings made available by Truman Price, Abby Sale, Jerry Kergan, Bethie & Vic Granatstein, Peter Goldberger, Mark Anderson, Rob Nold, Kilby Spencer, and Karleen Tyksinski.

   In the print area, Jesse Larsen gifted me with an autographed copy of Hank Bradley's publication, Counterfitting & Stealing; Ginny Hollon, publisher & editor of Mandolin Magazine, provided me with copies of this publication; Merry MacKinnon donated two song folios from the 1930s; Pamela Lyons-Nelson gave me a copy of Heart Songs; Steve Redmond gifted me with David Brody's Banjo Pickers Fakebook; and a fellow fiddler, Peggy O'Neill, provided me with 7 volumes of back issues of Fiddler Magazine, a great addition that brings this important magazine up to date in the index.

I would like to especially thank Dan Williams and the West Virginia University Press for providing the index with a copy of the Eddon Hammons Collection, Vol. 2. Similarly I am extremely grateful to Sue Songer for her donation of the two volume Portland Collection which she & Clyde Curley have put together as part of the Portland Country Dance Community. Special thanks are also due to Mel Bay for providing me with a copy of their wonderful publication, Kenny Hall's Music Book, compiled and edited by Vykki Mendel Gray.

And finally I would like to acknowledge the contribution of George Chudacoff to the folk music community in the Portland-Vancouver area. He recently lost his battle with cancer, and his family very generously made available CDs from his collection, some of which are now indexed.

Other publishers that have contributed valuable records of traditional material include:

And last but by no means least, My thanks go to Sampler Records for donating the Mark Hamilton Songs and Tunes from Wolf Run booklet and "Sackett Harbor", their publication of James Kimball's collection of nineteenth century tunes. My thanks to all of the above and also to the many users who have provided me with feedback about errors and additional information about performers and songs.

These donated resources now account for around 13% (615) of the total number of items in the index.  If you have items that you believe would be useful additions to the collection, either LPs, CDs, or printed material; feel free to contact me via email or phone.
 

Jane Keefer      503-775-2846             Last updated November 19, 2008.  


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