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Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
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The Weavers
The Weavers
American folk music quartet
2
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
3
Dominic Behan
Dominic Behan
Irish writer
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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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Irwin Silber
Irwin Silber
American journalist
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Sis Cunningham
Sis Cunningham
American musician
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Len Chandler
Len Chandler
Folk musician from Akron, Ohio
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Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton
American folk singer and singer-songwriter
9
Peggy Seeger
Peggy Seeger
American folk singer
10
Donovan
Donovan
Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten
American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter
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Happy Traum
Happy Traum
American musician
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Pete Morton
Pete Morton
British singer-songwriter
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Rod MacDonald
Rod MacDonald
American musician
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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle.
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Dick Gaughan
Dick Gaughan
British musician
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Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger
American singer
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Carolyn Hester
Carolyn Hester
American musician
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Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs
American protest singer and songwriter
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Don McLean
Don McLean
American singer-songwriter
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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary
American folk band
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Charlie King
Charlie King
American singer-songwriter
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Tommy Makem
Tommy Makem
Irish musician, artist and poet
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New Lost City Ramblers
New Lost City Ramblers
musical group
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Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish-born skiffle musician
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Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel
Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist (1924-2015)
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The Pentangle
The Pentangle
British folk rock band
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Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty
Scottish singer and songwriter
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The Clancy Brothers
The Clancy Brothers
Irish folk band
Matt McGinn
British musician

Matt McGinn

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British musician
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McGinn, c. 1954

Matt McGinn (17 January 1928 – 5 January 1977) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter, actor, author and poet. Born in Glasgow in 1928, McGinn was a prolific songwriter and is recognised as an influential figure in the British folk music revival of the late Fifties and early Sixties.