The Limeliters – Folk Music Pioneers Still Performing – Instructor: Harold Wood 2 Wednesdays, 11/12, 19 at 9:00 a.m. in Hopi
$10.00
Harold Wood has been the webmaster of a fan website for the Limeliters (limeliters.net) since 1997, has personally known many members of the group over the years and has corresponded with many long time fans for two decades. He and his wife Janet are residents of Sun City.
Description
The Limeliters were the most vibrant urban folk group of the early 1960s, second only to the Kingston Trio, a diverse volatile mix of highly intelligent personalities: Lou Gottlieb, a base-playing comic with a Ph.D in musicology; Alex Hassilev, a debonair virtuoso banjo player fluent in six languages and Glenn Yarbrough, an independent-minded, hugely gifted natural tenor. As a hugely popular folk music group of the era, they recorded a string of best-selling albums for RCA Victor, made TV appearances and commercials and toured North America and Europe 300 days of the year. This course is especially timely due to the upcoming live January 11, 2025 appearance at the Gaslight Music Hall as well as the new definitive biography of the group having just been published by Richard Ginell.
