[Magdalen] RIP Fred Hellerman, 89.

[Sibyl Smirl]

Makes me sad, like hearing of the death of somebody I always knew.  The 
main one I remember of The Weavers (from the sixties, not the forties) 
was Ronnie Gilbert.  I had a general impression of hearing that she had 
died "a while ago", but I just googled her, and it was only last year.

May they rest in peace and rise in Glory.


On 9/2/16 8:54 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
> Member of The Weavers.  God rest the soul of yet another Great One.
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> *****
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> Fred Hellerman, member of Weavers folk group, dies at 89
>>From Associated Press
> September 02, 2016 7:54 PM EST
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> WESTON, Conn. (AP) — Fred Hellerman, a founding member of the influential folk music quartet the Weavers, has died. He was 89.
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> Hellerman died Thursday at his home in Weston, Connecticut, after a lengthy illness, his son, Caleb Hellerman, said Friday.
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> The Weavers were formed in the late 1940s by Hellerman along with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert. They helped to popularize folk music in the United States with recordings including "Goodnight Irene" and "On Top of Old Smoky." The group disbanded after they were black-listed by anti-Communists in the early 1950s, but performed again into the 1960s and then at a reunion concert at Carnegie Hall in 1980.
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> Hellerman also produced Arlo Guthire's 1967 record, "Alice's Restaurant," and worked with several artists over his career as a composer, arranger and songwriter.
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> Hellerman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and his first displayed his love for music by collaborating on stage plays in the Yiddish theater, his son said. He learned to play guitar while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard and teamed up with the other musicians while living in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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> He moved to Weston in 1969, installing a recording studio in the home that would often be visited by Seeger and other artists.
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