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One town hosted both American Nazis and some of the earliest folkies.

Ballads fuse the arts of music and storytelling. Through ballads, classic tales of human experience are enshrined in poetry and song. Pete Seeger, an American folk hero and icon of the great "folk revival" of the 1950s & 1960s, hand-selected some of his favorite American ballads to compile a series of classic American song-stories flowing from the bedrock of the American experience.

Mr. Seeger sang until his voice wore out, and then he kept on singing, decade upon decade.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie, famed for singing about the downtrodden and having the words “This machine kills fascists,” inked onto his guitars, wrote a few little-known licks about Donald Trump's father, Time reports.

Pete Seeger had been a really old guy for as long as I can remember. One of those people who simply don’t die. Like Nelson Mandela. Of course…

Dulcimers, banjos, sitars, tablas, harps and hundreds of other acoustic noisemakers can be found here. Don’t be shy, sign up for a harmonica workshop, ukulele class, or slide guitar lessons. Antique and vintage instruments from all over the world are displayed throughout the storp>

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From chart-toppers to singers who spent decades in obscurity, here are 12 albums by women that shaped folk music in the 1960s and '70s, and remain timeless and influential today...