That Friday University of Chicago Folk Festival show is still archived (actually it turns out these videos go a few years back)
https://www.youtube.com/@universityofchicagofolklor3095/streams
TONITE
(66) UChicago Folk Festival: Saturday Night Concert 2/8/25 -
The New Lost City Ramblers
https://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/3DVDs_1/NLCR-1961-UChicago/11%20-%20Arkansas%20Traveler.mp3
served as quntiessential House Band in the early years, coordinating the workshops
http://www.uofcfolk.org/workshops.shtml
in Ida Noyes Hall, (the Student Activities Building)..... Mike Seeger used to quip that the Ida Noyes building was renamed “Adenoids” at Festival time every year. There was always one major major bluegrass band - Monroe, Stanleys, New Grass Revival - among the many genres - and old-timers off of 20s and 30s records
Exiting The Ida Noyes daytime workshops / record tables / jamming ...... down the front stairs, going from jamming to dinner to Mandel Hall for the concert, one is facing South where, if you could see (or better) through the time barrier to 1893, you’d be directly across the street from....
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SEE ALSO
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BS73SRMJ/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
Country & Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival Kindle Edition
by Mark Guarino (Author), Robbie Fulks (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
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