f46 Archive Action


We’re slowly digitising the huge amounts of old folk scene memorabilia in the fRoots archive. Here’s another of our occasional selections – the majority of these from the ’50s and ’60s donated to us by the late Eric Winter


This page, clockwise from above: Circa 1957 flier for the Skiffle Cellar at 49 Greek Street (which later became Les Cousins); 1961 fore-runner to Shirley Collins’ America Over The Water presen- tations; New York Broadside magazine February 1963 – Bob Dylan's Master's Of War first published, with illustration by Suze Rotolo; 1969 Incredible String band flier designed by Nigel Waymouth of Hapshash & The Coloured Coat; from the far outposts of the nation to Cecil Sharp House in 1965.


Facing, clockwise from top left: Paul Simon was only third on the bill to Martin Carthy and Dorris Henderson in 1965; the Americans hit the country – Croydon flier from 1965; 1967 membership card for Les


Cousins, London’s influential ‘contemporary folk’ venue; Stu- dio Skiffle at the Princess Louise, High Holborn, 1956 – washtub bass player “Bo-bo Buquet” (aka Tony Edwards), “Blossom” and Pete Maynard, later of the Thamesiders; Eric Andersen looking very 1960s on the cover of an August 1965 edition of US magazine Folkin’ Around; Koerner, Ray & Glover on the cover of Minneapolis magazine Little Sandy Review, Novem- ber1963; City Ramblers jam ses- sion at the 44 Club, Gerrard Street, 1956 – l. to r. Paul Fineberg (clarinet), Little Bear Sutton (washboard), John Hast- ed (banjo), Russell Quaye (cua- tro), Hylda Sims (guitar), Marion Amis (vocals), Rambling Jack Elliott, Redd Sullivan (vocals)


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