Harry Tuft
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Biography
Harry M. Tuft was born in 1935 in Philadelphia. He is an American folk musician and the founder of the Denver Folklore Center. He graduated from Dartmouth College and grew up singing and playing instruments before transitioning to folk music in the 1950s. Tuft's early performances included Sunday Hootenannies at Philadelphiaâs Gilded Cage coffeehouse, where he met Dick Weissman. Inspired by a 1960 trip visiting Weissman in New York City's Greenwich Village, Tuft opened the Denver Folklore Center on March 12, 1962. The center became a focal point during the American Folk Music Revival, hosting acts such as Elizabeth Cotten, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. He performed with the folk trio Grubstake and retired as owner of the Denver Folklore Center in 2016.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Griesely Bride
- Mrs. Ravoon
- Across the Blue Mountains
- Snowbird
- California Boy
- Old Dolores
- Sweet Substitute
- I Saw Her as She Came and Went
- Lucy Ann Rag
- Lord Gregory
- The Galveston Flood featuring George Armstrong / Gerry Armstrong
- The Mermaid
- You Gonna Quit Me, Baby
- Harvest Song
- In 1845
- Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover featuring Gordon Bok
- Green Island Shore featuring Ed Trickett
