First the great news that I have been in contact via e-mail with Marssie and Lenny in the past couple/three days for the first time in over forty years! What great fun to re-connect.
The above is a newspaper clipping from a show we did in Artesia, New Mexico back in 1967. We were performing a song we "adapted" from the Kingston Trio, the humorous Calypso tune "Ah Woe Ah Me". I had gone to the College of Artesia for one semester until my dad died, and returned there only once briefly to do the concert. The school's enrollment was primarily draft-dodgers like myself. Once the Viet Nam war ended it was quickly over run with tumble weed, and last I heard the campus is now used to train boarder patrol agents.
The Whitsuntide Singers actually flew commercially to this gig, and while I still have a Western Union Money-Gram, I don't know exactly what we were paid, or how much our then agent/manager Tom Prasch (God rest his soul) negotiated for us. But hey, back then the business of folk music was all about supply and demand. As I recall it was a large and appreciative audience of several hundred people as tickets were only two dollars in advance and three bucks at the door!
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So very glad you connected up with these voices from your past. That's a very precious thing. - Eileen
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