Beers Family

The Beers Family was an American traditional folk music group that performed and recorded between 1958 and 1972. The members of the group were Robert Beers (sometimes billed as "Fiddler" Beers), his wife Evelyne Beers, and their daughter Martha Beers. The group was well known for performing at the Fox Hollow Festival, a folk music festival held on the Beers' farm near Petersburgh, New York, every year between 1964 and 1980.[1] They also performed at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, appearing in 1966 and 1968.[2] The group was part of a folkloric program to present American music to international audiences, playing concerts through the State Department of the United States in Port of Spain, Trinidad.[3] The group ended after Bob Beers was killed in an automobile accident in Vermont in 1972.[4]

  1. ^ "Beers Family". Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  2. ^ "Mariposa: celebrating Canadian folk music: 1966 Performers". York University Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved October 1, 2016. Online exhibit on the history of the Mariposa Festival
  3. ^ Fosler-Lussier, Danielle (2015-05-01). Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28413-5.
  4. ^ "Robert Beers Dead, Folk Singer was 51". New York Times. May 27, 1972. Archived from the original on 2018-07-27. Retrieved September 12, 2015.