The New Christy Minstrels
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- 2019-09-20 Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts Palmer Lake, US
- 2019-08-03 Cascade Theater Redding, US
- 2019-07-26 Bankhead Theater, Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center Livermore, US
About The New Christy Minstrels
To a lot of casual listeners during the early '60s, the New Christy Minstrels were the embodiment of popular folk music. If they're not remembered (or written about) in a very serious way, it's mostly because of their image: ten well-scrubbed, usually smiling young men and women singing upbeat songs about Paul Bunyan or hopping freight trains, or doing optimistic renditions of Woody Guthrie tunes. The New Christy Minstrels began with Randy Sparks, a singer/guitarist who started out in the late '50s mixing folk and folk-style songs with Broadway material. He was leading his own trio by the...
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