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Help Betsy Siggins with her memoir

Betsy Siggins & The Story of Club 47 & The Music That Changed the World.

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Jul 22, 2024
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Bad Boys & Daring Girls: Betsy Siggins & The Story of Club 47 & The Music That Changed the World.

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We are also excited to announce that all donors contributing over $500 will be invited to a private party launch event when the book is completed.

Betsy Siggins with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez through the years

We are sharing this Go Fund Me page for contributions that will enable our treasured Betsy Siggins to work with author Liz Thomson on the memoir she has long yearned to complete. Bad Boys & Daring Girls: Betsy Siggins & The Story of Club 47 & The Music That Changed the World. This biography will both chronicle and honor Betsy’s life’s work and times and, in so doing, fill in the missing pieces of a culturally important mosaic. The book’s value is immense, capturing the stories of a generation and a genre from the perspective of witness, participant, cheerleader, and influencer. Betsy’s involvement in and on the folk world spanned from the late 1950s to the present, with her holding folk music’s institutional memory eager to be recorded and preser…

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