~ ARCHIVAL MATERIAL ~

Cabale Calendar -- provides context for Barbara's Lightnin' Hopkins CD and other music and activities of the period.

The Great Folk Scare -- "Dedicated to the Folkniks (as they were often called then), the folk and protest singers of the folk boom from the late 1950s through early 1960s.  These warriors, armed only with voice and guitar, inspired the nation and the world with their conspiracy against racial segregation, military draft, McCarthyism, blacklists, censorship, the cold war, nuclear Sword of Damocles,  nuclear fallout,  and  prevailing  "don't rock the boat" mindset of the time.  It may seem strange now, but then folk musicians could sell millions of albums, hear their songs played even on commercial radio and television, and read gossip about themselves in the mass media.  There will be folk music revivals again, but there will never again be anything like those heady days!" [quoted from the website]

The Ash Grove -- Los Angeles (now Santa Monica) club where Barbara performed in the 50's and 60's.