[Deathwatch] Agnes Cunningham, co-founder of folk-song journal, , 95

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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:07 AM

Agnes Cunningham, co-founder of folk-song journal, dies

(New Paltz - AP) ? Agnes Cunningham, who founded the folk-song
mimeographed magazine Broadside with her husband, has died. She was 95.


Cunningham died Sunday at a nursing home in New Paltz, 75 miles north
of New York City, according to her daughter Jane Friesen.

Cunningham and husband Gordon Friesen started printing Broadside in
1962 in their New York City apartment and sold it for 35 cents. For
nearly three decades, the magazine published more than one thousand
songs, including some of the early works by Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Janis
Ian and Tom Paxton.

Pete Seeger tells The New York Times that Broadside reached key people
throughout the country.

Cunningham, also known as Sis, invited musicians to her Upper West Side
apartment where the couple recorded reel after reel of guitar ballads
and protest songs. It was in Cunningham's living room that Seeger
recorded his nuclear war parody "Mack the Bomb."

Dylan's folk anthem "Blowin' in the Wind" was first published in
Broadside.

Cunningham is survived by two daughters, three grandchildren and a
great-grandson.