Malvina Reynolds & unidentified guitarist (anyone know who this is?) in front of the Blues Project band set up at the San Francisco State College Folk Music Festival, April 1966. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Bluegrass duo Vern Williams and Ray Park with Herb Pederson, ca. 1965. Photo: Kelly Hart? From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, BFMF.net. #bfmf

"University of California had a great little folk festival. I think probably the Cal Folk Festival was the first time I ever one on one met traditional performers. I mean, that is to say people who were part of that world."—Jerry Garcia, images from Winter 1962 Berkeley Folk Music Festival, #bfmf

Reverend Gary Davis at the Berkeley Community Theater, 1964. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Flier advertising a performance by Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys on 14 November 1961 at Pauley Ballroom, University of California, Berkeley. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. bfmf.net. #bfmf

English folk song collector and singer A.L. "Bert" Lloyd at the 1964 UCLA Folk Festival. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Dev Singh, photographed by Barry Olivier, ca. 1966. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Jean Ritchie at the 1961 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Joan Baez & Mike Seeger backstage at the 1964 Berkeley Folk Music Festival Jubilee Concert. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Members of Los Tigres del Norte at the 1970 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Photo: John Melville Bishop. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Sam Hinton playing guitar & harmonica (in mouth!), ca. 1965. Hinton served as Berkeley Folk Music Festival MC every year, 1958-1970. A harmonica maestro, humorous raconteur, folk singer &...oceanographer! For more: www.samhinton.org. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

"Dynamite" Annie Johnston from her time in the Cleanliness and Goodliness Skiffle Band, 1967. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Catch Son House at the Jabberwock, 1965. Flier from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

RIP Tracy Schwarz, member of the New Lost City Ramblers and folk revivalist extraordinaire. Seen here at the 1963 UCLA Folk Music Festival. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Roscoe Holcomb performing at the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival. Photo: Kelly Hart. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Richard Fariña & Mimi (Baez) Fariña, backed up by the Blues Project (Steve Katz in the background) at the 1966 San Francisco State College Folk Music Festival. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Jesse Fuller, his one-man band "fodella" & Merritt Herring. Berkeley Folk Music Festival director Barry Olivier & Helen Olivier (now Rubhardt) in the background. On the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social campus, 1959. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Who is Folk Music? The Martin Guitar Company wants to know, ca. mid-1960s. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. See the whole pamphlet here: dc.library.northwestern.edu/items/fd9319... #bfmf

JE Mainers Mountaineers at the 1963 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Judy Collins at the Jackson Hole Folk Festival, August 1964. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

The New Lost City Ramblers (John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz) performing at the 1964 Berkeley Folk Music Festival opening concert in the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Faculty Glade. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

The Chambers Brothers at the 1967 San Francisco State Folk Festival. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Carl Sandburg, performing at the University of California, Berkeley, 1961. Photo: probably Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

I see you A Complete Unknown & Newport Folk Festival & I raise you the completer unknown of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Alan Lomax performing at the 1959 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Photo: Phillip Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Almeda Riddle & Berkeley Folk Music Festival Director Barry Olivier at the 1964 UCLA Folk Music Festival. Thinking of you, LA. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Bessie Jones, March 1968. Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net, #bfmf

Sue Draheim, Jim Bamford & Mac Benford of Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band, ca 1968. Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, bfmf.net. #bfmf

One-man band Jesse Fuller performing at the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival's opening concert on Sproul Plaza (campus of the University of California). From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Pete Seeger & chair 63 at the 1963 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Photo: Roland Jacopetti. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf

Rock concert promoter Bill Graham at the 1967 Mills College Rock 'n' Roll Conference (which included Phil Spector, Tom Donahue, Marty Balin & others). Photo: Barry Olivier. From the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net. #bfmf