We started off the evening with dinner at a cute little restaurant down the block from Java Central,
"Come and go with me to that land," beckoned the words of one of those old songs.
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This past Saturday night Tom and I, ...headed over to scenic downtown Westerville, Ohio, ...for a folk music sing-along with Columbus's wonderful folk duo, Carl Yaffey and Bill Cohen, As everyone knows, Tom and I are Bill Cohen and Folk Ramblers sing-along super-fans, so if there's a Folk Ramblers or Bill Cohen concert happening in town, as there is several times a year, we'll be there, often with some friends who we've brought into the fold of the folk song sing-along faithful. We started off the evening with dinner at a cute little restaurant down the block from Java Central, ...that had a pretty outdoor patio, ...which doubles as an art gallery where local artists can display and sell their work. As the time for the concert approached the music room filled up, ...as did the over-flow room, Then began the sing-along, with The Folk Ramblers leading us in the folk songs and ballads from the 1950's and 1960's, the golden age of the American Folk Music Revival: Songs on the subjects of peace, justice, freedom, civil rights, anti-war protest, the human struggle, ... songs that brought us back to the days when it seemed that everyone had a guitar and could play the two or three or four strummed chords required by most folk tunes; back to when young people did sit around on a Saturday evening singing together those simple, beautiful songs while we dreamed of changing the world into a better place; back to when we really believed we could.
"Come and go with me to that land," beckoned the words of one of those old songs.
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