Carl Perkins
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| Location | New York, NY, United States |
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| Introduction | Folk music has a special place in my heart. I was first introduced to Lomax and Lomax by my great-uncle Robert at Pinemere Camp, where he spent 42 summers as the Director (and 8 summers as Director Emeritus). One of the enduring traditions of camp that Uncle Robert (or Bob, as he was known to the thousands of campers and staff whose lives he touched during his life) brought to camp was Sing; every Saturday morning after services, camp sat together on the Green, a large open space in the middle of camp, to sing folk songs. Throughout the years, other songs have made their way in and out of the Sing repertoire – Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, even Old Crow Medicine Show in recent years – but the core songs were the pieces of Americana that had been sung by folksingers for generations to which Jewish youths from the mid-Atlantic region may never have otherwise been exposed. |