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Lee Hays
Lee Hays
American folk singer and songwriter
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Ronnie Gilbert
Ronnie Gilbert
actress, musician (1926-2015)
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Almanac Singers
Almanac Singers
band
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Burl Ives
Burl Ives
American actor, writer and folk music singer (1905-1995)
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Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
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Peggy Seeger
Peggy Seeger
American folk singer
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Josh White
Josh White
American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist (1914-1969)
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John La Touche
John La Touche
American lyricist and bookwriter in musical theater
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The Weavers
The Weavers
American folk music quartet
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Oscar Brand
Oscar Brand
Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter and author
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Ewan MacColl
Ewan MacColl
English folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (1915-1989)
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Cisco Houston
Cisco Houston
American musician (1918-1961)
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Joe Hill
Joe Hill
Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Stephan Said
Stephan Said
American musician
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Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
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Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg
American musician
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Yip Harburg
Yip Harburg
American lyricist
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The Tarriers
The Tarriers
American Folk Band
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Sis Cunningham
Sis Cunningham
American musician
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Kenneth Lee Spencer
Kenneth Lee Spencer
American opera singer (1913-1964)
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Jenny Vincent
Jenny Vincent
musical artist
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Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger
American singer
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Katherine Kennicott Davis
Katherine Kennicott Davis
American teacher, classical music composer, pianist
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Loraine Wyman
Loraine Wyman
American folksinger
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Matt McGinn
Matt McGinn
British musician
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
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Holly Near
Holly Near
American actress, singer and activist
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Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs
American musician
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Odetta
Odetta
American recording artist, singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and civil and human rights activist (1930-2008)
Earl Robinson
American singer-songwriter and composer

Earl Robinson

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American singer-songwriter and composer
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Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Robinson (left) and Paul Robeson at rehearsal for the first "Ballad for Americans" performance in 1939.

Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was a composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is remembered for his music, including the cantata "Ballad for Americans" and songs such as "Joe Hill" and "Black and White", which expressed his left-leaning political views. He wrote many popular songs and music for Hollywood films, including his collaboration with Lewis Allan on the 1940's hit "The House We live in" from the academy award winning film by the same name. He was a member of the Communist Party from the 1930s to the 1950s.

The jazz clarinetist Perry Robinson (1938–2018) was his son.