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The English Folk Dance and Song Society Festival gets underway at Keele Universty, Keele, England, UK. "Five hundred 'traditional' folk singers, some strumming guitars, others with Jew's-harps in their pockets, converged this afternoon on Keele University for the biggest folk festival ever held in Britain," reported The Guardian. Attendees are adamant that their is 'traditional' not 'commercial' folk of the sort Bob Dylan and The Byrds have recently made popular.Full article:
Mr Michael Dewdney (treasurer of the West Country Folk Club) : We keep away from commercial songs. Folk should be of the people, by the people, and for the people; it fails when it is written for commercial gain. Bob Dylan will never be remembered for his protest songs 40 years from now. The flavour of his songs is communistic, but he lives like a capitalist, having been pushed into a mould by the people behind him.
(Source : The Guardian, Jul 17, 1965)
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(Source : The Guardian, Jul 17, 1965)