15 Facts About Carolyn Hester

Carolyn Sue Hester was born on January 28,1937 and is an American folk singer and songwriter.

Carolyn Hester was a figure in the early 1960s American folk music revival.

Carolyn Hester made her second album for Tradition Records, run by the Clancy Brothers, in 1960.

Carolyn Hester became known for "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Carolyn Hester Moved Through the Fair".

Carolyn Hester was one of many young Greenwich Village singers who rode the crest of the 1960s folk music wave, helping launch Gerde's Folk City in 1960.

Carolyn Hester appeared on the cover of the May 30,1964 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

That same year Carolyn Hester met Richard Farina, and they married 18 days later.

In 1961, Carolyn Hester met Bob Dylan and invited him to play on her third album, her first on the Columbia label.

Carolyn Hester collaborated with Bill Lee and Bruce Langhorne, but she concentrated exclusively on traditional material.

Carolyn Hester has disputed David Hajdu's depiction of her marriage to Farina in his book Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina.

Carolyn Hester has claimed that there are exaggerations in his description of the relationships among Dylan, Baez, Hester, and the Farinas.

Carolyn Hester has denied that Farina was as close to Dylan as some rock historians claim and has strongly disputed that Farina was in any way responsible for Dylan's success as Hajdu suggested.

Hajdu suggested that Carolyn Hester had an ongoing rivalry with Baez and her sister Mimi.

Carolyn Hester was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Folk Music Association in 2003.

Carolyn Hester closed the dance club Cafe Danssa a year after his death.