Tag Archives: Marilyn Berner
The Sixties in Folk Music / 13. Todd Grant
I guess it all started when I was about 10 years old. That would have been 1951. Lots of Hank Williams on the radio, Ernest Tubb, Benny Goodman—you remember the days. I lived on the east side of town, down … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 4. Dan Barrows
DAN BARROWS
Musings of the Iopan and Other Things
Pre-Iopan. In 1958, I was directing TV at a small television station in Zanesville, Ohio. One day, members of a touring religious drama company called “The Bishop’s Company” (hereafter sometimes called “the Company”) … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 3. Bill Berner
Bill Berner
by Marilyn Berner
Bill Berner was born in Buffalo, New York, to immigrant parents William and Apolonia, in March 1934. His father was from Stuttgart, Germany, and his mother was a native of Poland. This is an unverified story that … Continue reading →
The Sixties In Folk Music: Santa Barbara / Introduction
Introduction – Table of Contents
Several years ago, I received a letter from Marilyn Berner, living in Colorado. She reminded me that she, along with her husband Bill, ran a folk music coffee house, The Iopan, in Santa Barbara California in … Continue reading →