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Angela - Short bio and introduction from jackhardy.com  [musical background: instrumental on Three Sisters  -Tinker's Coin - Great Divide Records - jackhardy.com]

Jack Hardy - My name is Jack Hardy and these are a few of my tunes - [ intro picking of Pondersa fades out]

Terre Roche on meeting Jack in Pittsburgh in 1974

Jack - The Roche sisters  invited him to the New York music scene
Jack Hardy - [Portion] Night on the Town
Maggie Roche says that they travelled together out west and he came to live in New York

Jack Hardy - Tree of Rhyme –  Landmark - Big Pink Music [Korean Box Set]
Jack says he was born in Indiana, and grew up in Colorodo, and Connecticut...

Ewart Skinner – Assistant editor to Jack  U. of Hartford's student paper "The Liberated Press" where Jack was arrested for libelling Nixon. Jack was community.

Jack Hardy - I Oughta Know - Omens - 1 800 Prime CD

Nancy Baxter - met Jack at 19 yrs old, remembers him at Folk City with his cape, knowledgable and leading the post Dylan scene

Lucy Kaplansky - an iconic figure in the 70's 80's folk boom, there wouldnt have been a scene without Jack

Jack Hardy - All Saints` Eve - The Nameless One- 1 800 Prime CD

Frank Mazzetti - rules on the songwriter's circle

Stan Rogers – Stan mentions the songwriter circle, from wfdu

Christine Lavin - thankful to Dave Van Ronk for introducing her to Jack, who showed her how working

Angela - 1979 we went to Ireandand tracked down everything we could about James Clarence Mangan
Jack Hardy - An Bael Bacht - Songs of Jack hardy Vol 1 of the White Goddess - BCN Records

Jay Rosen- jack always told me he'd be more famous after he was dead

Tom Duval-  saw many crowd Jack, wanting something from him, Tom promised himself he wouldnt ask - he didnt ask for any of the riches jack eventually offered to him

Jack Hardy -The Changing Wind - The Hunter - Great Divide

SuzanneVega- Jack had a gift for melody

Roy Champagne- fan of everly brothers, and singing with his brothers made that evident from the beginning

Jack and Gordon Hardy JR. - [Portion]  End of the Road - Early and Rare - 1 800 Prime CD

Jack Hardy with Jeff and Chris Hardy - Ruins - Live - Big Pink Music [Korean Box Set]

Tim Robinson - theres no one to compare him to, poetry and word sounds first  - meaning comes later

Roy Champagne - he hated the music business
Jack - if Beethoven were alive today, he'd be writing jingles

John Gorka - Jack was the first person I met who wrote on a schedule
Jack Hardy - Blackberry Pie - Tinker's Coin - Great Divide Records - jackhardy.com
Mark Dann - owes being a recording engineer to Jack, he gave me the visability on the scene taping Fast Folk
Hugh Odoherty - coast guard rescue pilot, tweeked Ship Of Fools song to a verse of ship of feuls
Jack introduces Mike Laureanno

Mike Laureano- we need to remember jack is a formadable artist which gets eclipsed as he was the force behind fast folk
he should be covered by other artists
Jack Hardy - [portion] Aint I a Woman - solo demo not released
Jack Hardy - [portion] Aint I a Woman - live from New Bedford festival with Mike and Morgan Hardy
Jack introduces of Kate MacCleod
Kate MacCleod - georgeous metaphor for humanities depth
David Massengill - the songwriter I most admire in this world
Jack Hardy - [portion of ] White Shoes - White Shoes - 1 800 Prime CD

AnthonyDaCosta- Jack called me grasshopper, I looked up to him as a mentor

Jack Hardy - [portion] Willie Goggin's Hat - TInker's Coin - jackhardy.com

AbbieGardner-any songs I write from now on will be without his guidance and inspiration,  "dont forget to write" so thats what im going to try to do
Angela - He worked from advent to Easter '82 writing 13 songs for the Jan us church service, with reverend Stone
Jane Orcutt - speaks on Peacemaker Players who performed Jack's plays in churches, county college and local theatres

Jack Hardy - The Knights Dream - Collected Works Of Jack Hardy -
Angela - opera singer from viena dedicates her night show to jack as his was the first song she ever sang on a stage
Brian Rose - he was a irish mystic, and a cowboy rustic, but living with artists in NYC, his career levelled off, but writing never stop growing
Roy Champagne - Rio bravo was his favorite western, he would have liked to have been a singing cowboy

Jack Hardy - Go Tell the  Savior -  Early and Rare - 1 800 Prime Cd

Angela - Jack toured extensively overseas for almost 40 years, where he was incredibly popular
Jack Hardy - [portion] Dover To Dunkirk  - The Nameless One - 1 800 Prime Cd
Kirk Sie - before he knew it he was on a plane with two hardys, borrowed bass and rented station wagon
Angela - Jack knew over a dozen songs in gaelic, he'd memorize a verse at a time on long walks with his dog brogabhan

Jack singing in Irish while driving with family to yearly rental in Ireland
Angela - his last trip overseas, he performed for the last time

Pat Maloney- Jack had no idea how sick he was, but he never stopped, nobody knew how bad he was feeling,

Jack Hardy - Ponderosa - Last Performed Song in public taped on 1/21/11 by Pat Maloney  McCarthy's Bar in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland  

Slan abhaile

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