Este artista y promotor judío de 90 años es el Zelig de la música folk
Harry Tuft estaba en un taxi con Judy Collins, quien llevaba su guitarra. El taxista miró hacia atrás y preguntó si los dos eran cantantes folk. Respondieron afirmativamente. «La música folk está muerta», afirmó el…
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Harry Tuft's 90-year career as a performer and promoter places him at the center of folk music's living history. The anecdote about Judy Collins and a dismissive cab driver captures how insiders have long heard predictions of the genre's death while continuing to sustain it. The piece invites readers to consider what it means to be a keeper of a tradition that keeps being declared over.