10. Playlists
Below you will find:
- Audio materials from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive
- Audio recorded at the Festival, posted to YouTube.
- Spotify playlists of commercial recordings by performers who appeared at the Festival, compiled by exhibit curator Michael J. Kramer.
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Audio-Visual Repository
Alan Lomax Lecture with Shirley Collins, 1959 Berkeley Folk Music Festival
Cisco Houston, Live at the University of California, Berkeley, 18 October 1958
The 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival on KPFA Radio
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 1, Reel 1: Jesse Fuller; Sam Hinton; Laura Weber; Tina and David Meltzer; Song of Earth Chorale; Dave Fredrickson; Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show; The Golden Toad; Allan MacLeod; Vera Johnson.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 1, Reel 2: Vera Johnson; Larry Diggs with Mitch Greenhill; Alice Stuart Thomas; Mayne Smith with Ray Bierl; Paul Arnoldi with Mitch Greenhill and Bob Sanderson; Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach; Thursday, July 4, 1968.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 2, Reel 1: Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show; Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 2, Reel 2: Howlin’ Wolf.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 3, Reel 1: Sam Hinton; Dave Fredrickson; Alice Stuart Thomas.
Reel 2: Allan MacLeod; Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 4: Children’s Concert—Sam Hinton; Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach; Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 5: The Golden Toad; Mayne Smith with Ray Bierl; Larry Diggs with Mitch Greenhill and flutist; David and Tina Meltzer.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 6, Reel 1: Howlin’ Wolf.
Reel 2: It’s a Beautiful Day; Howlin’ Wolf.
1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Part 7, Reel 1: Sam Hinton; Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach; Andrews Gospel Singers of Berkeley; Paul Arnoldi; Song of Earth Chorale.
Reel 2: Song of Earth Chorale; Alice Stuart; Howlin’ Wolf; Jesse Fuller; John Fahey.
Reel 3: Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show; Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company.
Reel 4: Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company; Joan Baez.
The full Berkeley Folk Music Festival Audio-Visual Repository contains additional recordings that were in Festival Director Barry Olivier’s working files for producing the Festival. These are mostly demo recordings sent to Olivier by potential performers.
YouTube Recordings
Red Crayola, Live at the 1967 Berkeley Folk Music Festival
The label Drag City released an album in 1998 that included a recording of Red Crayola’s performances at the 1967 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. The recordings also have been posted to YouTube.
Kaleidoscope, Live at the 1967 Berkeley Folk Music Festival
A recording of Kaleidoscope’s performance at the 1967 Berkeley Folk Music Festival also exists on YouTube.
Spotify Playlists: Commercial Recordings by Berkeley Folk Music Festival Performers
Spotify playlists compiled by curator Michael J. Kramer.