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Guy Carawan
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Guy Carawan ( July 27, 1927 - May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist. He served as music director and song leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. Carawan is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement, by teaching it to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. A union organizing song based on a black spiritual, it had been a favorite of Zilphia Horton (d. 1956) wife of the founder of the Highlander Folk School. Carawan reintroduced it at the school when he became its new music director in 1959. The song is copyrighted in the name of Horton, Frank Hamilton, Carawan and Pete Seeger. Carawan sang and played banjo, guitar, and hammered dulcimer. He frequently performed and recorded with his wife, singer Candie Carawan. Occasionally he was accompanied by their son Evan Carawan, who plays mandolin and hammered dulcimer. Carawan and his wife lived in New Market, near the Highlander Center. Carawan was born in California in 1927, to Southern parents. His mother, from Charleston, South Carolina, was the resident poet at Winthrop College (now Winthrop University) in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and his father, a veteran of World War I from North Carolina who worked as an asbestos contractor. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Occidental College in 1949 and a master's degree in sociology from UCLA. Through his friend Frank Hamilton, C
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Songs with Guy Carawan
This Little Light of Mine
Guy Carawan Sings Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue - Guy Carawan, Vol. 2
Tree of Life
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Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
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Live at Caffe Lena: Music from America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013
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Skiffle - The Essential Collection (Digitally Remastered)
Ultimate Folk Collection
Appalachian & Irish Tunes On Hammer Dulcimer
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Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
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Folk Music of the Newport Folk Festival, Vol. 2
Tree of Life (Arbol de la Vida)