Newly available! Prints of Ellen's rare, behind-the-scenes photographs from the 1964 Newport Folk Festival can be purchased at: ellenstekert.darkroom.com/collections/.... The collection includes candid shots of Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt, and many more!
And don't forget last year's "Go Round Songs, Vol. 1": ellenstekert.bandcamp.com/album/go-aro...
Today is Bandcamp Friday, when the site waives its revenue share and passes the funds directly to artists. It's a great day to check out Ellen's music, including the newly released "Go Round Songs, Vol. 2"! ellenstekert.bandcamp.com/album/go-aro...
The new album is finally here! Folk legend Ellen Stekert unveils rare recordings in “Go Around Songs, Vol. 2”, including lost Woody Guthrie song and other unpublished compositions from the folk revival. Check it out at ellenstekert.com.
![Dave Van Ronk - Golden Apples Of The Sun [LOST 1966 RECORDING From The Ellen Stekert Tapes]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5juk5vpif225t3fosptynpbk/bafkreiezl2lmxxdbziih3s3zf7aabrejyeef3hvsc4cxbwmc7csc2txtkm)
You can also hear Dave Van Ronk's version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTya...
The album gathers home and live recordings made between the 1950s and 1970s, capturing a lifetime immersed in traditional song and the folk revival. “Golden Apples” is a special song for Ellen, putting music to a W.B. Yeats poem in an arrangement she learned from fellow folk singer Dave Van Ronk.
Ellen’s new single, “Golden Apples Of The Sun,” is a deeply personal and historically resonant recording that looks ahead to her upcoming album, Go Around Songs Vol. 2. Listen and read more about it here: ellenstekert.com/2025/12/27/e...
Plus, we have a new single out later this week, featuring Ellen singing Dave van Ronk's version of the classic folk tune ”Golden Apples of the Sun”!
And some news about our future music projects too: Ellen's second album should be available within a month!
Ellen and producer Ross Wylde were interviewed this week on Minnesota Public Radio’s "Minnesota Now", talking about using new tech to bring old songs back to life. Listen at ellenstekert.com/2025/12/18/m...
Cornell University's alumni magazine just published a lovely article about Ellen's days there in the 1950s, where she helped found the Cornell Folk Song Society and spent her free time in the NYC folk scene. Please give it a read!
ellenstekert.com/2025/12/09/a...
Note: The blogpost also includes a special bonus interview recorded in 2018 for The Roadhouse, another great WTIP show.
They talk about Ellen’s history in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, the plethora of archival music we’ve released over the past year, and much more.
Ellen and producer Ross Wylde were interviewed on Friday by Scenic Route, a show broadcast on WTIP community radio in Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Head over to her website to listen! ellenstekert.com/2025/12/06/e...
Ellen's new single, "Puttin' on the Style," revisits a 1960s-recorded version of this classic from her 1955 debut album "Ozark Mountain Folk Songs." Give it a listen on her website! ellenstekert.com/2025/12/04/e...
Done twincities.com TwinCities PIONEER PRESS West St. Paul pastor recalls spending the summer of 1980 in Minnesota with a friend — Pope Leo XIV While working at a Minneapolis hospital, the future pope saw 'The Blues Brothers' at a Roseville theater By JARED KAUFMAN | jkaufman@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press PUBLISHED: Mav 16. 2025 at 6:09 PM CDT | UPDATER&
With that photo of Pope Leo dressed as a Blues Brother circulating, I think people have forgotten that
POPE LEO first saw the Blues Brother movie IN MINNESOTA
Just in time for Halloween, it's a new song from Ellen: The haunting murder ballad "Frankie Silver. Head to her website and give it a listen!
ellenstekert.com/2025/10/27/e...
Folk singer and folklorist Ellen Stekert's new single, “I’ll Give You Any Mountain,” is a song with roots deep in the 1960s folk revival. Written by her friend Tracy Powers more than 60 years ago but never released, the piece is finally being shared with the world.
ellenstekert.com/2025/10/14/e...
Ellen's latest new release is "Shugo," a playful nonsense song she learned from retired lumberjack Fuzzy Barhight in 1956. (If you know Ellen's discography: Yes, it's the same Fuzzy whose songs she sang on her 1958 Folkways disc "Songs of a New York Lumberjack."
ellenstekert.com/2025/08/29/e...
Ellen Stekert - On the Rim of the World
Barbara Lynch - where did you go
The Silver Sardines - Muddy Water
Played some great recent releases yesterday—listen back to the episode here if you missed it!
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Ellen's interview with Paul Metsa can now be heard on our blog here ellenstekert.com/2025/07/26/t..., or at the AM 950 website here: www.am950radio.com/wall-of-powe... Please give it a listen!
Then she'll be on Paul's "Wall of Power Radio Hour" in the Twin Cities on AM 950 KNTF today at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m., or on the web via Paul’s website, paulmetsa.com. Please tune in! (2/2)
Ellen talks with musician and writer Paul Metsa today on his radio shows! Her interview will broadcast on "Stars on the Prairie" 10am to noon in Duluth at 610AM- 103.9FM or stream worldwide at www.kdal610.com.
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Some very cool music news: We have discovered what we think is the earliest known home recording of blues and gospel legend Reverend Gary Davis in Ellen Stekert’s personal archives, made in 1951 when he was still a street performer in New York. ellenstekert.com/2025/07/18/e...
A very nice writeup from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Ellen's new album, and our whole ongoing archival project! Thank you, ABC!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
We’re pleased to share this delightful profile of Ellen and our recent archival-music project, “Ellen Stekert: The New Old Sound,” written by Terri Sutton for the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts website!
cla.umn.edu/english/news...
Ellen's latest single is a slice of LGBTQ+ history just in time for Pride Month. Have a listen to her beautiful cover of "Four Strong Winds":
ellenstekert.com/2025/06/26/w...
Ellen Stekert & Marge Doherty - Four Strong Winds
Barking Dog is on #ckuw in one hour! Catch a lovely new archival release from @ellenstekert.bsky.social early on in the show, and check out the very kind shoutout she and her team gave us on their website!
🔗: ellenstekert.com/2025/06/19/b...
Andrew Ford, who recently interviewed Ellen for Australian radio’s The Music Show, wrote a terrific article for Inside Story about “Scarborough Fair” (of Paul Simon fame), discussing many versions of the song, including the one sung by Ellen on "Go Round Songs". ellenstekert.com/2025/06/26/o...
