An artist and singer throughout his life, Eric von Schmidt had a key role in folk music's revival.
(LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF file/1998)
Harvard Square was a center of the rebirth of folk music in America in the late 1950s and 1960s. And Eric von Schmidt was its raffish, raspy, bearded midwife. (Full article: 889 words)
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