The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

Sir George Grove CB (13 August 1820 – 28 May 1900) was an English writer on music known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He contributed to the English literature on the subject including a concordance in 1854 and about a thousand pages of Sir William Smith's 1863 Bible Dictionary. Grove was trained as a civil engineer and successful in that profession but his love of music drew him into musical administration.