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Word: songfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Student Association, Carol Songfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Groups Will Enliven Foreign Students Vacations | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...race complete with a Marryin' Sam at the finish line, what is described as a "Schmoo Hunt--finders keepers," hiking--"a free schmoo for every blister," a tug of war with Wellesleyites, a softball game with Simmons girls, sack races, and a 75 cent picnic supper, followed by a "songfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Goes Out On Picnic Tomorrow | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...Glee Club's annual tradition of spring Yard concerts will be resumed tonight with a songfest on the steps of Widener, starting at 7 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Offers Concert Tonight | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

Presented by the New Student, publication of Harvard Youth for Democracy, the informal songfest will feature American folk ballads as interpreted by Glazer, Wood, Cisco Houston, and Brownie McGhee. The opening notes will sound at 8:15 o'clock, and tickets will be on sale at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards Hoot, Howl In Folk-Fest Tonight | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...playin' for the Lumber Workers' Union. We was singin' around in the shingle mills. There was a lady out West out there in the lumber camp and her name was Annie and so every time they'd have a songfest Annie would outshout all of them. So people got to call her Hootin' Annie but the name got spread all over and so out there when they are going to have a shindig they call it Hootenanny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hootenanny | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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