Scope and Content
Collection of audio recordings of folk festival concerts, workshops, and informal events, produced at various locations in Connecticut and Pennsylvania by the Indian Neck Folk Festival from about 1961-2015. The collection also includes papers, photographs, videocassettes, posters, and digital files. The Indian Neck Folk Festival was an invitation-only folk music gathering held annually in May at a camp facility in Connecticut. The collection documents the relationships, activities, and music that this community shared over the course of several generations. Includes documentation about planning and organizing the Indian Neck Folk Festivals, as well as photographs and sound recordings of public concerts and events at Yale University, Harrisburg Area Community College, and the Pennsylvania Folk Festival. The Indian Neck Folk Festival and concerts featured various performers, including Bob Dylan, Dave van Ronk, Rev. Gary Davis, John Hammond, Big Joe Williams, Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Bok, Sara Grey, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Debby McClatchy, Helen Schneyer, Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals, Mike Seeger, Tony Trischka and Skyline, the Paton family, Mick Moloney and Eugene O'Donnell, Ed Trickett, Ann Mayo Muir, Stan Rogers, Utah Phillips, Sparky Rucker, John McCutcheon, Grey Larsen, Michael Cooney, Bill Staines, Joe Hickerson and Kathy Hickerson, Alistair Anderson, Kinvara, John Jackson, Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen, Barbara Carns, Philippe Bruneau, Lucy Simpson, Margaret MacArthur, Lani Herrmann, Pricilla Herdman, Jon Wilcox, Linda Goss, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Ken Perlman, and many others.