Sold Date: November 11, 2024
Start Date: October 28, 2022
Final Price: $50.00 (USD)
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ULTRA RARE 1960s SHAKER FOLK SONGS PRODUCED BY "SHAKER VILLAGE WORK GROUP".  In NEAR MINT CONDITION, looks rarely if ever played.  Found in a plain white sleeve.  Listing photos show content, including 14 songs on one side and Introductions by a Shaker Brother and a Found of the Shaker Village Work Group.  One copy online for $300, no copies for sale on discogs, no record of sales on popsike.
Here is the Wikipedia entry on the Shaker Village Work Group including information on this record:
"The Shaker Village Work Group was a recreational summer camp and teen educational program that occupied historic Shaker land and buildings in New Lebanon, New York. The property was purchased by founders Jerome (Jerry) and Sybil A. Count from the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village community in 1946, and was opened to its first group of young "villagers" as the Shaker Village Work Camp in 1947.  Around 1960, the Work Camp's name was changed to the Shaker Village Work Group. Operating until 1973, the Shaker Village Work Group was noteworthy as a program that gave urban youths the opportunity to learn skilled hands-on work through folk crafts, for its efforts to preserve Shaker architecture and culture, for its role in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s, and for its influence on the 1960s counterculture movement.
During its twenty-six year span the Shaker Village Work Group presented a microcosm of American work and political ideals, weaving together the Protestant work ethic and communitarianism of the Shakers, the labor movement's celebration of ordinary working class manual labor, and libertarian ideals of self-sufficiency and self-ownership...
...The Shaker Village Work Camp (and later Work Group) produced two Shaker songbooks with scores (Songs of the Shakers, 1956; Songs of the Shakers, 1962), two phonograph albums of Shaker songs sung by the teenage Villagers (14 Shaker Folk Songs, 1959 which featured an introduction by Shaker Brother Ricardo Belden; and Shaker Folk Songs, 1952)..."
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