AI Art has taken over Facebook in the last week. Are murals next? I grieved for the loss of Jessie Benton , and the Musical Art Stage she and her husbands made. She is in my family Art Dynasty tree.
John
In 1955, Jessie would join Pete Seeger performing at the unveiling of Tom’s River Club mural in Kansas City. Two years later, enrolled at Radcliffe College, Jessie began giving concerts and singing on the Harvard radio station at the very beginning of the folk music revival.
In January 1957, she appeared singing Elizabethan folk songs in a segment about her father on NBC’s Wide Wide World TV program. In 1959, she played guitar and sang on Edward R. Murrow’s Person to Person interview with her father.
After graduating from Radcliffe, she lived and studied in Italy. Returning in 1962, she and her first husband David Gude gave memorable concerts together at the Moon-Cusser coffee house in Oak Bluffs. She turned down a lucrative contract to become a star folk singer.
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