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First time on CD
Oscar's wildly-popular Canadian concert
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Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival
has been on the air since December, 1945, and is broadcast every Saturday,
10pm-11pm (Eastern Time),
on WNYC-AM 820 in New York City and can be heard live worldwide in streaming audio:
http://www.wnyc.org/stream/am.asx
Oscar
is a Folk Singer, Recording Artist,
Songwriter, Guitarist, Bawdy Song Balladeer, Sea Chantey Performer, Radio Broadcaster,
Television Program Host, Special Events Director, Emcee,
Broadway Musical Composer,
Playwright, Actor, Author, Storyteller, Musicologist, Historian, Children's Recording
Artist, Curator of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Honorary Ph.D. He was also on the panel
that created Sesame Street...
His programs have been hailed as "Wonderful",
"Exciting" and "Fantastic", but underneath he is a very ordinary
and humble great folk singer. His programs have captivated audiences all over Canada, the United States, and Staten Island.
They could be "Laughing America", wherein Americans
laugh despite hard times, "Revolution through Rap", wherein we watch our
music grow from colonial ballads through rock and roll, "Ballads and
Ballots", American political songs...etc.
His programs are tailored to his audiences. He has presented concerts for President's Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Columbus Day, Independence Day,
Election Day, Veteran's Day, Labor Day, St. Patrick's Day, Educational Awareness Month,
and Take Your Daughter To Work Day.
Brand won his first Peabody Award in 1982 for the National Public Radio
broadcast, The Sunday Show. Fifteen years later he shared the Personal Peabody Award with
Oprah Winfrey.
This is an excerpt from the Fifty-Fifth Annual Peabody Awards Program Guide,
The Waldorf-Astoria, New York:
"In December 1995, Oscar Brand celebrated his 50th anniversary as host of
the Folksong Festival
on
WNYC, New York's municipal radio station. In that
half century, Mr. Brand has personally championed folk music and has provided a platform
for its most important and influential proponents. The artists featured by Oscar Brand
include Woody Guthrie, The Weavers (who took their name from a listener's suggestion) and
Huddie Ledbetter. In the McCarthy 1950s, many performers blacklisted as communists by
commercial broadcasters found their only radio airplay with the courageous Mr. Brand. New
folk performers soon made their way to Oscar's studio: Bob Dylan, Judy Collins Harry
Belafonte, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Harry Chapin, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, among many
others."
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Contact Information:
Gypsy Hill
Music
P.O. Box 1362
Manhasset, New York 11030
Fax: 516-487-2010
E-Mail: OscrBrand@aol.com |
OR |
Doug Yeager
Productions
300 W. 55th St.
New York, New York 10019
Tel: 212-245-0240
E-Mail: YeagerProd@aol.com |
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