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2 unusual facts about Gerde's Folk City


Jean Redpath

The natural warmth and power of her voice brought her to perform at Gerde's Folk City.

Ralph Rinzler

After graduation he went to New York City where he eventually became one of the famous Greenbriar Boys, a popular folk group that was the main event at Greenwich Village's Gerde's Folk City, with Bob Dylan as his warm-up opening act.


2008 Getxo bombing

Aitor Artetxe was another cell member on the run until he was arrested in the French town of Gerde, Hautes-Pyrénées on December 8, 2008.

Gerde

Gerde, Hautes-Pyrénées, commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, France

The Johnstons

In the US, they played at the 1971 Philadelphia Folk Festival, and performed at the Gerde's Folk City, and with Bonnie Raitt in Tuft's College, Boston; they were also the first band to open at the Bottom Line nightclub in New York.


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