Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration

TO BENEFIT FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK’S HOTLINE AND THE JOHN HERALD FUND.

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10th Anniversary Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration Sunday, May 27, 2018 Bearsville Theater To benefit Family of Woodstock’s Hotline and the John Herald Fund

Hosted by Happy Traum Featuring: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams John Sebastian Cindy Cashdollar Roly Salley Jim Rooney

Pat Alger Scott Sherrard Mike & Ruthy (the Mammals) Bill Sims Rod MacDonald

Jay Collins House Band: Connor Kennedy Will Bryant Lee Falco Brandon Morrison

Supported by: Radio Woodstock 100.1 and the Bearsville Complex Sponsors: H. Houst & Son, Kate’s Lazy Meadow and Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty

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Cover Design and Art by Milton Glaser Program Design by Katie Jellinghaus TABLE OF CONTENTS: Performers over the years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5 Bob Dylan in Woodstock – Happy Traum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7 Happy Traum – Anne Margaret Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9 Taking the Cover Photo for Nashville Skyline – Elliott Landy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–11 The Village to Woodstock – Ed Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–17 How Family of Woodstock Began. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Family of Woodstock Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Family of Woodstock Wish List-sponsored by H. Houst & Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 John Herald – Brian Hollander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The John Herald Fund – Brian Hollander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23–25 Radio Woodstock 100.1 – Coolest Radio Station on the Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26–27 A little over ten years ago, I was asked if I wanted to produce a Bob Dylan Birthday concert as a fund raiser (shout out to Neil Larson!). I, in turn, asked Happy Traum if he would host and help with the music. That first show was an amazing success and the shows that followed would never have happened without Happy’s support and the contributions of our generous community of musicians.

Now, it’s ten years later, and I’m proud to say that the Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition and an important annual fund raiser for Family of Woodstock’s Hotline and the John Herald Fund.

—LB We’d like to thank all the wonderful people who have given so much to this project over the years…especially the amazing musicians who’ve donated their time and talents (see pg.3-4). We’d like to thank Happy and Larry Campbell for never saying no when asked to help… and Connor Kennedy, Will Bryant, Lee Falco and Brandon Morrison for always being ready to play. Thanks to Elliott Landy for donating prints of his iconic photos every year; to Milton Glaser for designing our 10th Anniversary poster and program cover; and Katie Jellinghaus for designing this beautiful program. Thanks also to sound engineer, Dave Cook, for helping make this complicated show sound amazing and to Ed Bielawa for agreeing to get roped into being the stage “guy”. Special thanks to Doug Yoel for his help at the very beginning and through the years. Thanks to John Kirkpatrick and the staff of the Bearsville Complex and Radio Woodstock 100.1. Thank you to all of our sponsors and advertisers…please support them. And a very special thank you to all Family staff and volunteers!

—Tamara Cooper, Program Director 2

—Lu Ann Bielawa, Producer

Over the last 10 years, some of the most amazing musicians have donated their time and talents to perform at the Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration...

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Carmen Ann John Ashton Zee Avi Dean Batstone Marco Benevento Marc Black Joel Bluestein Tracy Bonham Will Bryant

Don Byron Larry Campbell Cindy Cashdollar Alex Caton Neil Cavanagh Jay Collins Chuck Cornelius Marshall Crenshaw Mikaela Davis

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The Defenders Zach Djanikian Jonathan Donohue Dave Dreiwitz Peter Dugan Duke McVinnie Band Kyle Esposito Donald Fagen Lee Falco

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Sarah Fimm Aaron Freeman Andy Friedman Grasshopper Amy Helm Brian Hollander Connor Kennedy Steve Koester Tara Kvistad 3

and we are so grateful to each and each and every one.

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Erik Lawrence Dan Littleton Storey Littleton Robin LeMartel Charles Lyonhart Jerry Marotta Frank McGinnis Kelleigh McKenzie Elizabeth Mitchell Mike Merenda Midnight Ramble Horns Tim Moore Brandon Morrison Paul Green Rock Academy Band 4

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Mr. Roper AC Newman Mike Pagano Rich Pagano Graham Parker Chris Pasin Scott Petito Kate Pierson George Quinn Manuel Quintana Eric Redd Adrien Reju Seth Regovoy Leslie Ritter Arlen Roth NeeNee Rushie

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Jared Samuel Jason Sarubbi Jane Scarpantoni Sean Schenker Pal Shazar Jules Shear Kenny Siegel & Blueberry Bill Sims Nick Spinetti The Stacks Matt Stauffer

Simi Stone Tim Sutton Kate Taylor Happy Traum Ruth Unger Robert Burke Warren Lindsey Webster Jim Weider Teresa Williams Pete Winne Doug Yoel Chris Zaloom

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Bob Dylan in Woodstock — By Happy Traum

By Elliot Landy

Bob Dylan lived in Woodstock for less than ten years - roughly from 1965 to 1971. During that time, he led a very private life, raising his family and seeing only a few close friends and colleagues.

Bob never performed in town and was only occasionally seen in the streets and cafes here. And yet, even though a half century has passed, his impact on Woodstock continues to be enormous.

To this day, people in various parts of the world ask me: “Does Dylan still live in Woodstock?”

Despite his reclusive lifestyle here, his output during those years following his motorcycle accident was prodigious and startlingly powerful. Think of the folk-inspired songs of “John Wesley Harding;” the warmly pastoral, largely acoustic “New Morning;” and the abrupt shift to the country music sounds of “Nashville Skyline.” And, of course, the treasure-trove of songs that he and the Band put together in their informal sessions at Big Pink that were eventually released as “The Basement Tapes.”

The Band in the basement at Big Pink by Elliott Landy

By Elliot Landy

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We’ve been celebrating the songs of Bob Dylan, on a date close to his birthday, for ten years now. These occasions have been truly memorable and have shown immense amount of talent and the depth of musicianship that we have among us here in Woodstock and the surrounding towns, mountains and valleys. Even more astonishing is the incredible array of Dylan songs that we have to choose from. Each year’s show brings out material that is both familiar and obscure, and in truth we

could go on for hours, maybe days, and not reach the end of Bob’s catalog.

This year, we have assembled an incredible cast of musicians - the best of the best - for an evening of personally-chosen, carefully curated Dylan songs. I know you will be entertained and enlightened, moved and delighted by this evening of tribute to the greatest singer/songwriter of our time. Here’s to the next ten years of such shows.

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Happy Traum —By Anne Margaret Daniel Brooklyn. He still marvels at the memory: “One guy with an instrument, 1,500 people, and songs that were meaningful, songs that said something to me. It threw my whole world into wonder.” Happy began taking guitar lessons from Brownie McGhee, and playing folk ballads with packs of young musicians who were also learning those songs. Traum recounts the stories of those days, and plays the songs of this time, in his heartfelt history “Coming of Age in the Folk Revival.”

Make no mistake, though: those days are not done and gone. Happy is keeping them alive and well for us all, and most particularly for young musicians just picking up instruments and inspiration.

By Dion Ogust

Happy Traum was born in the Bronx, New York, on May 9, 1938, the son of Ruth and Marty Traum, and the big brother of Artie, born in 1943. For sixty years and counting, Traum has brought together musicians, singers, songwriters, students and historians of music, and audiences in many venues around the earth.

Greenwich Village, New York City is called a village because it used to be just that: a tiny town, devoid of skyscrapers. The folks who lived there knew each other; the musicians played together in Washington Square, at the White Horse, in living rooms full of books and ashtrays, and on stoops and sidewalks.

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Happy began recording in 1963, in a New York studio with other musicians including Bernice Johnson Reagon, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, and “Blind Boy Grunt,” a/k/a/ Bob Dylan. Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 chronicled what was happening in America at that moment, and also sang the glory of this country. Traum and Dylan sang together, on “Let Me Die in My Footsteps,” and petitioned us with Dylan’s words to live by today: “Go out in your country where the land meets the sun See the craters and the canyons where the waterfalls run Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho Let every state in this union seep in your souls And you’ll die in your footsteps Before you go down under the ground”

With his wife Jane, Happy moved to Woodstock in 1967 to raise their three children — and founded Homespun Tapes, now Homespun Music Instruction.

At home in the Catskills, Traum edited Sing Out! The Folksong Magazine, and began performing in a duo with his brother Artie. Happy and Artie Traum were successful, influential, and beloved.

While in Woodstock, Happy and Artie gathered together a group of musicians, and started The Woodstock Mountains Revue. Its core group was, initially, Happy, Artie, Pat Alger, Larry Campbell, John Herald, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, and Roly Salley. Joining in at various times, on recordings and on stages through the

Northeast, Europe, and Japan, were Eric Andersen, Lee Berg, Rory Block, Paul Butterfield, Caroline Dutton, Eric Kaz, Maria Muldaur, Arlen Roth, and John Sebastian.

Happy in Woodstock was like a pebble dropped in a pond: the ripples radiated out, spreading the interest in good music. Musicians once based in New York or Los Angeles or who knows where else on the road, came to Woodstock. Here they found a place to put down roots, a place to call “home”.

Here in Woodstock, we’ve been lucky to call the Traums our neighbors for fifty-one years, and counting.

By Suzanne Szasz

Tonight, you will hear the music of Bob Dylan, a resident for most of a decade, from 1965 to the mid-1970s, and still a visitor to the Catskills — most recently, last summer, when Dylan played two gigs at the Hutton Brickyards on the Hudson in Kingston, and then drove up the road he used to live on for the Byrd01 Open Studio Show. Dylan turned 77 on May 24th. Happy birthday, Bob. At this tenth Annual Bob Dylan Birthday celebration, we celebrate Bob Dylan, Happy Traum, and we honor the memory of John Herald, and the Family of Woodstock fund established in John’s name.

n.b. On May 29th, Jane and Happy will celebrate their 58th wedding anniversary.

Tonight, we wish them brightest returns of the day in advance.

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Elliott Landy on taking the cover photo for Nashville Skyline an excerpt from his book: Woodstock Vision Then on another afternoon I went over to his place. As we left the house, he grabbed a hat, and asked, “Do you think we could use this?” I had no idea if it would be good or not, so I told him “take it, and we’ll see.” We walked around through the woods behind his house looking for a good spot. It had just been raining, we had boots on, and he was carrying this hat.

He paused for a moment, apparently inspired, and said, “What about taking one from down there?“ pointing to the

ground. As I started kneeling, I saw that it was muddy but kept going. ”Do you think I should wear this?“ he asked, starting to put on his hat, smiling because it was kind of a goof,

By Elliott Landy and he was having fun visualizing himself in this silly-looking traditional hat. ”I don’t know,“ I said as I snapped the shutter. It all happened so fast. If I had had any resistance in me, I would have missed the photograph that became the cover of Nashville Skyline. It is best to be open to life.

During those days in Woodstock he was really open and in a good mood. It was sunny out and we just followed our instincts. It was the first picture of him smiling, and in my opinion reflects the inner spirit, the loving essence of the man behind all the inspiring music he has given us. Someone told me that the reason people like it so much is that it makes them happy.

Every review of the album mentioned his smile on the cover. No one talked about the photograph itself. For me that is requisite for a “good” photograph. The medium itself should be invisible. It shouldn’t make you look at it and think, “What a great

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photograph this is,” but rather should make you focus on what is in the photograph: “Look at that child, look at the flower, look at that person, how fantastic.”

Nearly everyone of my generation knows the photograph, and many have acknowledged it as an image that has had great meaning to them. Perhaps it reflects the love we were all seeking to find through making the world a better place.

And so this was a magical picture for all of us.

It certainly assured my reputation as a photographer.

My bill for the shoot, which in addition to my fee, included an array of items such as gas, tolls, film, etc., came to exactly $777.

In metaphysics 777 is the number of mystical manifestation, the magical number, representing mysteries, the occult, clairvoyance, magic, the seven principles of man, the universe, and also the notes on a musical scale. I was awed by this incredible coincidence.

It strengthened my feeling that everything is interconnected in ways which the logical mind

By Elliott Landy cannot explain: We are all one. - from Elliott’s book, Woodstock Vision, The Spirit of a Generation.

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The Village to Woodstock — By Ed Sanders

1961 was a remarkable year, in which the USA was first being led by a young idealistic president, John F. Kennedy. It was also the year of the Freedom Rides, when busloads of Freedom Riders had their buses attacked and burned when proceeding through the South, attempting to integrate restrooms and eating places.

And it was the year of the Washington Square folk-song “riot.” That spring, a community group asked New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation to do something about the hundreds of “roving troubadours and their followers” playing music around the fountain on Sunday afternoons. This tradition had begun in the 1940s and ’50s when Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger inspired the Folk Music revival in Greenwich Village.

In the late 1950s the parks commission began issuing permits to limit the number of musicians, allowing them to play and sing Sunday afternoons, provided there were no drums. People apparently were concerned about beatnik bongo drums.

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Then, all of a sudden, Sunday singing was banned in Washington Park. The owner of the Folklore Center on MacDougal, Izzy Young, organized with others a nonviolent protest demonstration against the ban on folksinging in the park, at which on Sunday, April 9, 1961, a few hundred people gathered, including a young folksinger named Happy Traum, and a few hundred additional spectators.

Young’s Folklore Center, not far from the park, was a hangout for everyone interested in the Greenwich Village folk scene, including Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk. Even though Izzie Young got all the protestors to sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” the cops still arrested protestors.

The conservative New York Mirror ran a story on the folksong protest beneath the garish headline, “3000 Beatniks Riot in Village.”

After that famous beatnik riot, Happy Traum was active in the New York City folk music movement that included Dave

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Van Ronk, David Blue, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, and of course the quickly rising Bob Dylan. Happy and his brother Artie both made early reputations for their talents as singers and guitarists through the 1960s. Activists often had guitars in their apartments, and the folksingers were very much part of the historic Civil Rights movement that ended overt segregation in the South. Racist authorities in the South sneered at Civil Rights activists trying to integrate restrooms and restaurants as “dirty beatniks.”

Then came long hair, tie-dyed apparel, and the so-called Youth Revolution, and the racists’ pejoratives shifted from “dirty beatniks!” to “dirty hippies.”

It was in 1967, during the year of the Summer of Love, that Happy Traum, his wife Jane, and their children moved to Woodstock, where he joined a folk music community that included John Herald, Eric Anderson, and others, including Dylan who was then also living in Woodstock..

In the late 1960s, I was settled in the Lower East Side where I operated the Peace Eye Bookstore, and had formed a folk-rock satire band, The Fugs. By 1967 and the emergence of the “Back to the Land” movement, I had heard about the attractiveness of Woodstock for musicians, artists and writers.

Happy Traum became a key component of the Woodstock music scene. In 1967,

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1968 and ’69, there was a series of popular concerts held on Glasco Turnpike outside of Woodstock, at first on a farm where now the Woodstock Day School is located. These concerts were called

Sound-Outs and later Sound Festivals.

The first Sound-Out in 1967 had over twenty performers, including Richie Havens, Tim Hardin and Phil Ochs, and attracted over 2,000 to the three-day event.

The name was switched to Sound Festival, which were held in July and August of 1968, featuring Tim Hardin, the Blues Magoos, Happy and Artie Traum, Lothar and the Hand People, Don McLean, Peter Walker, Procol Harum, and others, including the Pablo Light Show.

In addition to performing, Happy helped promote the Sound Festivals. Once he told me about an incident when he was accosted by an opponent of the Sound Festival while he was tacking up a Sound Festival poster.

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The success of the Sound-Outs and Sound Festivals helped spur the Woodstock Festival. At the same time, 1969 saw the issue of long-haired youth and “Hippies� become a hot issue in Woodstock. In June, just weeks before the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, there were two wellattended public meetings, one of them covered in a local paper under the headline: Meeting Held on Hippy Problem At these meetings, although a few called for arresting and banning undesirable visitors, prominent Woodstockers made the case for staying calm over the so-called invasion of long-haired people looking to explore Woodstock and its ways. After all, Woodstock had been an Art Colony over

60 years by then, and was thriving.

However, there was so much interest in the upcoming Woodstock Festival that the Chamber of Commerce mailed out the following postcard to answer inquiries:

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How Family of Woodstock began The images of the 1969 Woodstock Festival are familiar to us all. Less known is what followed and its impact on the town for which it is named.

Fall 1970 was a more innocent time -- a time when hordes of young people descended on the area in search of the mythical Woodstock Nation of song and legend. At the time, Woodstock was home to Bob Dylan and many other musicians of the day. The town had only two police officers and was unprepared for the influx of young people. Kids were sleeping on lawns, getting arrested and sent to jail. Many had drug problems and some got busted for dealing. Needless to say there was a segment of the Woodstock community who weren’t very happy about their visitors. Some even waited at the Trailways bus stop offering $50 to disembarking travelers to go back where they came from. A few took the money and moved on, some stayed.

But there were others in the community who saw a problem and wanted to solve it. Family of Woodstock was built by volunteers including founding member, Gail Varsi, who told police, “If there’s a problem, call me 679-2485”. So Family of Woodstock began in 1970 with nine volunteers (including Executive Director, Michael Berg) in a special committee called, “Soft Landing Machine”, its members specifically trained to talk people down from a drug high. Family gave 18

newcomers information on legal camping and access to doctors willing to treat them. They provided clothing, food and help finding a place to stay to people who were lonely and scared, having left behind all that was familiar and stable in their lives. Family’s crew of volunteers did their best to handle it all, adopting the motto “Any Problem Under the Sun.” Forty-nine years later Family of Woodstock has become a complex and diverse network of interconnected services with one goal – helping people fix their lives and themselves. Emergency shelters, domestic violence programs, supported housing for teens and childcare resources in three counties, hotline/walk-in centers each with specialized subdivisions including counseling, food pantry, free store and volunteer training. And Family’s core service, the oldest continuously operating volunteer hotline in the nation, still has the same phone number (now with area code), 845-679-2485.

Family of Woodstock is an amazing organization at the hub of Ulster County’s human services. We are still going strong with the support of government grants and contracts, United Way, private foundations and all of you!

Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you to all of our generous sponsors. We cannot do what we do without your support.

Family of Woodstock Hotline 16 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY 12498 Email: fowh@familyofwoodstockinc.org (845) 679-2485 / 338-2370 Staff: Crisis Hotline – 2 full-time / 13 part-time 60 Volunteers Teen Hotline – 6 Volunteers Program Director: Tamara Cooper Assistant Program Director: Sue Carroll Program Hours: Crisis Hotline – 24 hrs/365 days Walk-ins – 9:30am to 9:30pm; 24 hours in emergencies Primary Functions: Crisis intervention; emergency short-term counseling; information and referral; case management; care coordination; emergency food; access to emergency housing; after hours, weekend and holiday coverage for the Ulster County Mental Health Department, Astor Children and Family Services, Hudson Valley Mental Health, Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center and the Institute for Family Health, including access to their clinical on-call systems; County Domestic Violence and Suicide Hotline; emergency resources in such situations as homelessness, lack of fuel or utilities, lack of food, or emergency transportation for the Ulster County Department of Social Services; the teen hotline, Just Connect; facilitation of the evidence based suicide prevention programs SafeTALK and ASIST and evidence based counseling programs, Mental Health First Aid and Youth First

Aid. This hotline also serves as the 24-hour access point for Family’s Domestic Violence, Homeless, and Runaway and Homeless Youth shelters.

Ancillary Services: Food closet; free store (clothing, furniture and household items); public rest room; free public telephone; message services; client advocacy; employment file; motel placements for individuals and families unable to be served by Family’s shelters; volunteer transportation; community bulletin boards; and hostsite for other community programs and initiatives. The program provides food and gifts to families and individuals to help and support during the major holidays. Finally, the program plays an integral part of the county mental and physical health delivery service by operating as the on call for Astor Family Services, the new Hudson Valley Health Department and the Ulster County Health Home, a new Medicaid initiative.

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If you’d like to make a gift that makes a difference, but aren’t sure how…think about contributing to our Wish List – either with a cash donation earmarked for a specific need or by donating a needed item or service.

• Weedwacker • Chairs for Hotline volunteers • Floor protectors for under chairs • Volunteer T-Shirts – to identify

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• Light weight portable table and chairs to bring to outdoor events • Hotline Banner to bring to events • New kitchen sink, counters and lower cabinets • New back door • New porch front steps • Repairs to siding • Motion detector for

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• HVAC and air purification system • Free Store facelift –

a new durable storage and shelving system for our free store is desperately needed

Earmark your contribution to go toward part or all of one of the following: • Text-Me-Back software for one year

• Recycling service at Thanksgiving dinner $350 • Sponsor a family during our holiday gift drive • Sponsor our free coffee service

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John Herald —By Brian Hollander

John Herald grew up in Greenwich Village, the son of a poet, and was enchanted by the string music he heard in Washington Square Park. It was around the time Bob Dylan first came to New York that John’s band, The Greenbriar Boys, were bringing the sounds of southern Bluegrass to the northeast and making some waves in the business.

One story of John’s at that time concerned Dylan’s famous review in The New York Times, written by Robert Shelton, one of the key launching points of his career. Seems Dylan was the opening act that night for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde’s Folk City. The Greenbriar Boys were asked if it was OK for Dylan to open their show.

“By this time, Bob was a friend of mine, so I said fine,” said John, in a 2005 interview.

“I wish he would return the favor now.

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quite a bit, so that’s how that happened.

Anyway, Robert Shelton was the critic for The New York Times, and he wrote an amazing review of Dylan saying that Dylan was essentially going to be a star, going to go shooting straight up from there, from Folk City.”

Before John’s death in 2005, Dylan had, in fact, visited him in Woodstock, to swap songs.

The John Herald Fund When John Herald died in 2005, the late Sam Hood and I were at the end of producing, with John, an album of his own songs, called Just Another Bluegrass Boy, named after one of his songs. And thus it became a labor of a different type, of love and creative fulfillment for a man whose beautiful artistry, we felt, was never fully appreciated.

The album turned out to be a stunningly fine piece, a CD which we were sure, back when such things happened with CDs, was going to sell millions of copies and generate a fortune.

So there had to be a way to deal with this ‘fortune...’, which, of course, never materialized. Still, there was an initial bit of

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sales, and Sam knew just what to do with the proceeds. He went to Michael Berg, at Family of Woodstock, and the three of us set up the John Herald Fund, into which went the proceeds from any and all sales of Bluegrass Boy.

bill, or a car repair, or medical expense, or any of a variety of financial afflictions that can hit your basic musician, could come to the fund, to me, or Sam or Michael, and the three of us would decide to help them out.

The terms of fund were clear. Any musician who was down on his or her luck, who needed a hand with an unpaid

As time went on and the sales of our beautiful album trickled down even further, other efforts to keep the Fund going were undertaken, musical benefits at Harmony Cafè, contributions out of pocket, some who had used the fund came around and paid back what they could, when they could. Baker Rorick contributed substantial amounts from his annual Invitational Luthiers Showcase.

And the annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration, a Family of Woodstock fundraiser, sets aside a goodly portion of the proceeds for the John Herald Fund.

And so it continues.

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If I had to estimate, I’d say that over the last, ah, jeez, how many years is it? Dozen or so, anyway, since we got it up and running, The John Herald Fund has helped out to the tune of $50,000, maybe more, for the region’s musicians. And it hasn’t only been musicians...the definitions have expanded on occasion to visual artists and writers, and others of the esoteric professions who have needed a hand. It’s certainly not a gigantic fortune, but on a day to day, dealing with life basis, we understand that it has contributed to the well being of the artistic community.

The biggest reward for me, aside from just helping my fellow players, has been to keep the name of John Herald alive in the eyes of his peers and beyond, and hope that you will somehow find his music, hear

his words and melodies and allow yourself to be moved by what he had to say.

To reach the John Herald Fund, to make a request or a donation, contact Tamara Cooper at Family of Woodstock, 845-679-2485, or 845-331-7080, or contact Brian Hollander at Woodstock Times, wtedit@gmail.com.

John Herald’s 2005 CD, Just Another Bluegrass Boy, is available in the lobby.

John Herald’s story, mostly in his own words, can be found at: www.johnherald.com.

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Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST The Coolest Radio Station on the Planet Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST, tagged “the coolest radio station on the planet” by its listeners and other members of the musicradio industry, is proud to be one of the remaining independently owned and locally operated radio stations in the country. Billboard Magazine has named Radio Woodstock 100.1 “Best Station” many times. The recipient of national and regional awards for its eclectic and innovative programming, Radio Woodstock 100.1 searches out and promotes the development of emerging artists, while still paying tribute to established talent whose music continues to stand the test of time.

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On April 29, 1980, Radio Woodstock signed on the air! The original vision was to capture the eclectic nature of Woodstock with a varied format that included blocks of Folk, Jazz, Blues, Classical, Talk, Rock, and a heavy emphasis on local and regional news.

The simple description of Radio Woodstock in those days was “Public Radio with Commercials.” This commitment to quality and diversity got Radio Woodstock recognized by Billboard magazine as a “Station of the Year” three times!

As the radio industry evolved, so did Radio Woodstock. By the mid-80’s, the focus of the station turned to a progressive mix of rock music. When the record industry began to print the play lists of “Modern Rock” stations in the mid 1980’s, Radio Woodstock was among the first stations in the country to be included.

In the early 1990’s, Radio Woodstock became one of the first Alternative radio stations in the country. By the late 1990’s, Radio Woodstock helped to invent the Triple A format (Adult Album Alternative) by having its eclectic rock programming aimed towards an adult audience.

Throughout the 90’s and into the 21st Century, Radio Woodstock has remained true to its heritage by breaking the rules of conventional radio and remaining independently owned and operated. We are a unique radio station that plays “Great

Classics, Great New Rock.” No one tells us what to play. We are guided by our passion for music and we play the best music from the late 60’s Woodstock era, all the way to today. We take great pride and pleasure in discovering new, emerging artists and introducing them to our audience and juxtapositioning them alongside great established artists and songs.

We believe in independent radio, locally based and programmed.

We believe in music’s power to inspire, entertain, motivate and move you.

We believe in supporting emerging artists, honoring Rock’n’Roll history and our Woodstock heritage.

We believe in community; we are all in it together. This is what makes us Radio Woodstock. On-Air: 100.1 Online: Radiowoodstock.com

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