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- Van Ronk was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a family that was "mostly Irish, despite the Dutch ' Van ' name". [ 4 ] He moved from Brooklyn to Queens around 1945 and began attending Holy Child Jesus Catholic School, whose students were mainly of Irish descent.
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Folkways. David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City 's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street ". [ 1 ]
Dec 9, 2013 · "What I really wanted — I wanted to play jazz in the worst way," he said. "And I did." Van Ronk grew up in Brooklyn and Queens.
Dec 2, 2013 · In Chronicles Volume One, Dylan wrote that he’d first heard Van Ronk’s records while growing up in the Midwest. “He was passionate and stinging,” wrote Dylan, “sang like a solder of ...
Image courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Dave Van Ronk may be best known for the company he kept, which included Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. But Van Ronk, a...
Dec 7, 2013 · He became an encyclopedia of folk music, from old English ballads to black gospel, one of its definitive interpreters in New York as the scene started to grow. "At 23 in 1959," wrote David...
Feb 10, 2002 · David Kenneth Ritz “Dave” Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City’s Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the “Mayor of MacDougal Street”.
Jun 30, 2016 · Dave Van Ronk, who was known as the Mayor of MacDougal Street, would have been eighty today. I met the monumental figure of the nineteen-sixties Greenwich Village folk scene in 2000, at Caffe...
