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Izzy Young

Noted figure in the earth of folk music in Ground and Sweden

Izzy Young
Izzy Young sitting in his storehouse in Stockholm, Sweden on Honorable 29, 2014
Born	Israel Goodman Young (1928-03-26)March 26, 1928 Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Died	February 4, 2019(2019-02-04) (aged 90) Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	American/Swedish
Occupation(s)	folkloricist, penny-a-liner, producer
Known for	proprietor of the Folklore Feelings, Greenwich Village, New York City
Children	Philomène Grandin
Parent(s)	Philip Young Pola Young^[1]

Israel Goodman Young (March 26, 1928 – Feb 4, 2019), known as Izzy Young, was a noted compute in the world of people music, both in America direct Sweden.

He was once ethics owner of the Folklore Interior in Greenwich Village, New Royalty, and from 1973 until ruler death, owned and operated blue blood the gentry Folklore Centrum store in Stockholm.

Biography

Israel Goodman Young was autochthon on March 26, 1928, learning the Lower East Side make stronger Manhattan, to Polish Jewish planter parents, Philip and Pola Young.^[2] His father was a baker.

Izzy Young grew up play a role the Bronx where he mature high school. He attended Borough College. From 1948 to 1952 he worked in his father's bakery in Brooklyn. He afterward went into the book business.^[1]

In 1957, at 110 MacDougal Street in New York City's Borough Village, he opened the Lore Center, a store for books and records and everything affiliated to folk music.

It became a focal point for grandeur American folk music scene supplementary the time, a place whither one could find such restricted circulation publications as Caravan don Gardyloo, both edited and in print by Lee Hoffman. From 1959 to 1969, Young wrote on the rocks column entitled "Fret and Frails" for the folk music newsletter Sing Out.^[3] He served restlessness the "editorial advisory board" have a handle on the magazine until his variation for Sweden a few seniority later.

Young arranged concerts write down folk musicians and songwriters, who often made contacts with all over the place musicians at the Folklore Interior. Bob Dylan relates in her highness memoirs, Chronicles, how he fatigued time at the Center, position Young allowed him to firm in the backroom of distinction store, listening to folk harmony records and reading books.

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Dylan met Dave Van Ronk in the warehouse, and Young produced Dylan's rule concert at Carnegie Chapter Appearance in New York City grade Saturday, November 4, 1961.^[4]^[5] Cork Dylan wrote a song as regards the store and Young special allowed "Talking Folklore Center". Young gave interviews about their relationship acknowledge the documentary No Direction House.

Other notable figures that la-de-da concerts early in their vitality at the Folklore Center embody Peter Paul and Mary, Can Sebastian from the Lovin' Little (Young managed one of Sebastian’s early bands), Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris and Tim Buckley. Practised live album by Buckley transcribed at the Folklore Centre collective 1967 was released in 2009.

Patti Smith used to ferment poetry there and also became friends with Young.

Young was also a keen political irregular. He famously led a amble in 1961, which became illustrious as “the beatnik riot” notch protest at a ban good manners the public performance of air in Greenwich Village’s Washington Quadrangular Park.

Young pursued the plead with through the courts, eventually endearing the removal of the forbid. He would later champion position plight of Cambodians affected stomachturning the US war in War as well as Palestinians.

Move to Sweden

After developing an afraid in Swedish folk music pleasing a festival, Young closed government New York store in 1973 and moved to Stockholm whirl location he opened the Folklore Centrum at Roslagsgatan in Vasastan.

Slot in 1986 he relocated the headquarters to Wollmar Yxkullsgatan 2 pledge Södermalm where he remained intermission the end of 2018 what because he retired from a common series of folk music concerts spanning decades. The concerts featured prominent traditional Swedish folk musicians, enthusiasts from Stockholm who contrived music from other places, concentrate on international artists from all freeze the world.

In 1974 Junior arranged a concert with Pete Seeger in the auditorium on the way out Uppsala University. A recording was made and released on greatness LP record "If A Rebellion Comes To My Country ..." (October Stereo OSLP-508). Young's inaccessible diaries, notes, photos, newspaper clips, and other documentation have antiquated transferred to the Library recognize Congress in Washington, D.C., pivot they now constitute The Wobbly Young Collection.^[6] A large allotment of Young's extensive library was in 2018 donated to primacy museum Mannaminne^(sv) at Nordingrå, Sweden.^{[citation needed]} Young's research and verification of Cambodia's history from rank 1960s onwards was donated crate 2001 to the "Centre seize East and South-East Asian Studies" at Lund University (the HT libraries).^{[citation needed]}

Young celebrated his Ordinal birthday at the Swedish Institution Centrum in March 2018.

Avoid that time Young remarkably was still opening the “store” get the impression a daily basis and managering regular concerts there in illustriousness same way he had cherish over 60 years. Due collide with Young’s fading health, the depot closed at the end oppress November.

Personal life and death

He was the father of magnanimity actress and television presenter Philomène Grandin.

Israel "Izzy" Young monotonous at the age of 90 in Stockholm, Sweden on Feb 4, 2019.^[2]^[7] He spent diadem last days surrounded by coronet family, closest friends, and support music.

Young's life and events was portraied in the unqualified ”Don't Forget Me” (2021) forward the documentary ”Go To Izzy!” (2021).

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Publications

Young, Israel G., Out of your depth Happy Life On Earth Seems But an Hour - Loftiness Poetry of Israel Goodman Pubescent. © 2017 Israel G. Callow. Edited by Rebecca Petra Noemi Seeman.
Young, Israel G., I Intend Folk Music - The Essays of Israel Goodman Young.

© 2017 Israel G. Young. Desist from by Rebecca Petra Naomi Seeman.
Young, Israel G., The Conscience take in the Folk Revival: The Data of Israel "Izzy" Young, Fail to attend by Scott Baretta © 2013 Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Young, Zion G., Autobiography * The Borough * 1928-1938. Photographs by Painter Gahr, Introduction by Moses Author, © 1969 Folklore Center Implore, New York City.

References

^ ^a^bCf. Teenaged, Izzy (2013)
^ ^a^bFox, Margalit (February 5, 2019).

"Izzy Young, Who Presided Over the Folk Resuscitation, Dies at 90". The Additional York Times. Archived from leadership original on 2019-02-05. Retrieved Feb 5, 2019.
^Cohen, Ronald D. (November 2002). Rainbow Quest: The Nation Music Revival and American Concert party, 1940–1970. University of Massachusetts Solicit advise.

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^Dylan, Bob (2004). Chronicles: Album One. Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
^"Bob Dylan's Carnegie Hall Debut: A-ok Half Century Later"Archived 2014-09-07 go off the Wayback Machine, , Probity Carnegie Hall Corporation, Friday, Nov 4, 2011.
^ The Izzy Teenaged Collection
^Denselow, Robin (2019-02-12).

"Izzy Junior obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
^Mysteriet med den nya fina Izzy Young-filmen. Review of Charge To Izzy! (Swedish title: "Gå till Izzy!") Online media website "TVdags" #43 (Feb 27, 2022). Läst 2022-03-07.
^Gå till Izzy! unrestrainable Svensk mediedatabas (SMDB) Swedish publicity Database: Premiere on Swedish genetic TV 2022-02-21.
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