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Bill Staines

Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines
is in for a special treat.
For more than forty years, Bill has traveled back a
nd forth across North America, singing
his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, fo
lksong societies, colleges, concerts,
clubs, and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill
became involved with the Boston-
Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's and for a
time, emceed the Sunday Hootenanny
at the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly
became a popular performer in the
Boston area. From the time in 1971 when a reviewer
from the Boston Phoenix stated that
he was "simply Boston's best performer", Bill has c
ontinually appeared on folk music
radio listener polls as one of the top all time fav
orite folk artists. Now, well into his fifth
decade as a folk performer, he has gained an intern
ational reputation as a gifted
songwriter and performer.