Folk Around the World - Rock Legends
An orally transmitted musical heritage of a culture, in the 1930s, enjoyed a resurgence during the Great Depression following stock market crash, droughts and dust storms encouraged farmers out of the dust bowl to California and New York State. The American folk music revival began with performers like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Paul Robeson. Breakthrough act The Weavers sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, labour songs, and American ballads and their style inspired the commercial folk boom that followed them into the 1960s, with Peter Paul and Mary, Gordon Lightfoot and The Seekers