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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 9, 1963
Folk Singing Hootenannies Push Rock 'n' Roll Aside
By Norma Perry
In the past few years, the spotlight of the musical circles has been shifted from rock and roll songs to folk songs. This change is seen in record sales, and the music being sung.
The high school students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp on the university campus have folk song lovers among them, as nearly every group does. And, naturally, they have hootenannies.
THE PARTICIPANTS teach the songs they know and learn new ones. Friends can be easily made at bootennies because everyone feels at ease in the presence of music that is both familiar and enjoyable.
Hootenannies are a product of this enthusiasm for folk songs. They gather together informally and sing their hearts out.
MAURICE Galoob of Headton,
Okla. joined in with his bongos.
So far, there have been two "hoots." They began with a guitar player named Ron Longsdorf of Omaha, Neb. He played in the drawing room of Templin Hall one evening and soon a group gathered.
Ron lead the songs and accompanied the group with his guitar. Ron has played in a coffee house in Omaha, and publicly at several dances.
At the second hootenanny, the tempo of the music was changed somewhat when Dave Murrow of Topeka joined the group. His piano and clarinet playing changed the music to jazz.
THE JAM session moved to the Lewis Hall patio that night to entertain an impromptu patio dance.
When the group moved inside, an even larger gathering sang the everpopular folk songs.
Dave and Ron feel that the popularity of folk songs stems from the fact that everybody likes to sing. Folk songs are songs that can be sung by everyone, and sound good when sung by anyone.
"People come out of their shells, even shy people, when songs are being sung" Ron said.
Hootenannies are easy. All that is needed for one is a guitar, a friendly group, and a mood of fun.
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