The Pennywhistlers
Biography
The Pennywhistlers were an American singing group founded by folklorist and singer Ethel Raim and popular during the 1960s folk music revival. They specialized in Eastern European polyphonic vocal music, traditional and arranged, sung primarily a cappella. Folk singer Theodore Bikel, in his autobiography Theo, called them "the closest to the real thing in authenticity in the United States." Their repertoire also featured traditional American songs. The Pennywhistlers toured throughout the 1960s, appearing at the Sing Out! hootenanny at Carnegie Hall, the Fox Hollow Festival, and the Mariposa Folk Festival, among others. They shared the bill with performers such as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Reverend Gary Davis, Leonard Cohen, and many others.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
24 releases · 5 albums · active 1963–1975
- Performance · 17
- Other credits · 7
Studios: Allegro Sound Studios · Judson Hall
Frequent collaborators
- Melanie (2)
- Theodore Bikel