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Archive Home > 2010 > September > 11 > Folk advocate Silber dies at 84

Folk advocate Silber dies at 84

By William Grimes / The Bulletin
September 11, 2010

Irwin Silber, a founder and the longtime editor of the folk-music magazine Sing Out!, died Wednesday in Oakland, Calif. He was 84.

The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his son Frederic said.

Silber was one of the prime movers behind the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s....

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