ASCAP Expo Day 1 ASCAP’s Brendan Okrent, Katy Perry, ASCAP’s Loretta Munoz and Sue Drew Judy Collins, John Lind, Gretchen Peters and Randy Goodrum perform at the “I Create Music” Center Stage Judy Collins, John Lind, Gretchen Peters and Randy Goodrum perform at the “I Create Music” Center Stage Performers at the “I Create Music” Center Stage Gretchen Peters, John Lind, Judy Collins and Randy Goodrum Stargate’s Tor Hermansen... 

  FOLK FORWARD How a sound born of tradition is thriving in the modern day   By Peter Cooper It’s the other “F” word. And like its more obscene counterpart, it means different things to different people in different contexts. In the 1950s, it was sweater-vested political subversives. Later, it was shape-shifting musical revolutionaries and introspective singer-songwriters. It has been used to describe troubadours who specialize in journalistic... 

JUDY COLLINS Looking back honestly on the bitter and sweet, in song and otherwise  Not many lives would include enough excitement for three memoirs, but Judy Collins’ is the exception. She has been a troubadour of the ’60s folk boom; accomplished composer; interpreter for the likes of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell; founder of her own Wildflower Records label and relentless social advocate. She was famously the inspiration for the...