Ed Askew, a cult folk music singer-songwriter and painter, died Saturday, Jan. 4 at the age of 84, his manager and friend Jay Pluck confirmed. Askew passed away after he had been in hospice care amid ...
Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...
When you think about a geographic region that has inspired everyone from Carly Simon and Elvis Costello to Will Smith, Raekwon, and Rancid, the Capital Region probably doesn’t come to mind. And yet, ...