Folk Music Month in Harvard Square! Forever Young: the Amazing Grace of Folk Music History

This November Harvard Square will become “One Large Community Gallery” featuring Vintage Photographs, Folk Artworks, and Harvard Square Music History Ephemera displayed throughout in store and restaurant windows, walls, nooks and crannies!

Forever Young is a collaborative endeavor between the New England Folk Music Archives (NEFMA) and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) and its members.

The month long focus on Folk Music and its Harvard Square roots will include a Walking-Tour Map of the visual imagery displays and historic locations and a calendar of “Special Events.” The Walking Tour Map will be available to pick up or download on www.harvardsquare.com - please check the website often as we add more “Forever Young” special menus, drinks, and ways to get in the spirit in Harvard Square.


About Community Gallery Show:
The visual images and ephemera in the show come from the New England Folk Music Archive collection and from the private collections of photographers and collectors who spent time in Harvard Square.

Artists and collectors include: Rowland Scherman, Steve Nelson, Don West, Byron Lord Linardos, Melissa Bugg, John Byrne Cooke, Robert Corwin, Eric Von Schmidt and several others.

Legendary musicians captured in photos and artwork include: Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Janis Joplin, Ellis Paul, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter Wolf, J. Geils, Odetta, Tom Rush, Jackie Washington, Taj Mahal, Patty Larkin, Geoff & Maria Muldaur, Shawn Colvin, and Suzanne Vega among many others.

A collection of early Club 47 calendars, posters, highlights, copies of Boston Broadsides, Programs, Letters, Album Covers and other Harvard Square vintage goodies!

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Comment by barbara gray on November 7, 2009 at 10:54pm

There was an amazing music to be heard in Harvard Sg and Boston and there is to this day !

Comment by Liz Witham - filmmaker on November 7, 2009 at 9:37pm

Sounds like a great event. If I'm in the area, I'll come check it out!