The Weavers
By J Poet
The Weavers - Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, and Lee Hayes - are the most important group of folksingers in the history of American popular music. They laid the foundations for the folk revival 10 years before anybody thought about the possibility of playing folk music for a living, and presented folk music from all over the world, 40 years before the world music movement of the late 70s. In their early days they were genuine pop superstars, performing blues, gospel, protest songs, folk music from all over the world and their own compositions on a series of singles that would have gone gold if gold records had been awarded at that time. Then the anti-communist mania of the 50s struck and they were banned as being anti-American... Read More
- Genre:
- Folk, Traditional Folk, Old-Time Folk
- City Of Origin:
- New York City, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 1948
