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Jean Ritchie
American folk singer
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Hedy West
American folksinger and songwriter
2
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
3
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
4
Almanac Singers
band
5
The Weavers
American folk music quartet
6
Lily May Ledford
American musician
7
Hally Wood
American singer
8
Hazel Dickens
Activist, singer
9
John Jacob Niles
American musician
10
Peggy Seeger
American folk singer
11
Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
12
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
American musician and lawyer
13
Mike Seeger
American singer
14
Ronnie Gilbert
actress, musician (1926-2015)
15
Judith R. Cohen
Canadian ethnomusicologist and musician
16
Lee Hays
American folk singer and songwriter
17
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
18
Ani Di Franco
American singer-songwriter
19
Rosalie Sorrels
American singer-songwriter
20
Dock Boggs
American musician
21
Guy Carawan
American musician and musicologist
22
Adrienne Barbeau
American actress
23
Peter, Paul and Mary
American folk band
24
Eliza Carthy
English folk musician
25
Sis Cunningham
American musician
26
Joan Baez
American singer, songwriter, musician and activist
27
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
musical duo
28
Shawn Colvin
American singer-songwriter
29
Rhiannon Giddens
American musician
30
Abigail Washburn
American banjo player and singer
31
Judy Collins
American singer and songwriter