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...where Joan Baez performed her first show. In a few years, you could stroll into the Harvard Square Theater and catch Bob Dylan. Or, turn on your radio and listen to the legendary “Hillbilly at Harvard” program on WHRB. You lived your life with folk music in the background...
This month in Harvard Square, you can relive those glory days with “Forever Young: The Amazing Grace of Folk Music History,” a month-long nod to the area’s rich past, in the form of events and displays throughout the Square...
...Music Box,” choreographed by Chang. Jennifer M. Batel ’12, Natalie A. Cameron ’11, and Odstrcil transformed themselves into Coppelia-esque wind-up toys, delicately moving about the stage with the precision of mechanical instruments. The plucked strings of the folk music—a piece by Yann Tiersen, best known for creating the soundtrack for “Amélie”—resonated as the dancers replied in stiff, precise arm movements that still managed to remain lyrical...
...addition to playing several of her songs at the event, Dobkin read excerpts from her new book, “My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement...
Along with several students interested in feminism and music as a tool for social justice, many of those attending the event were personal friends of Dobkin who were involved in the folk music scene...