Jack Hardy

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Jack Hardy   November 23, 1947 — March 11, 2011

August, 2023

New Shot Records is releasing a new CD of Jack's concert in Caprino Veronese, Italy, on November 23, 1993. Entitled Live on Stage in Italy, it features 17 of Jack's classic songs, with superb accompaniment by David Hamburger on dobro, Jeff Hardy on bass and backing vocals, and Wendy Beckerman on backing vocals. The release date is August 11, 2023, and it will be available through many retailers in the United States, Japan, and Italy. It may also be ordered on New Shot Records' web site.

November, 2022

• Six-page article (in Italian) in El Buscadero
  In addition to key biographical notes and brief comments on his discography, the piece highlights Jack's pivotal role as a trailblazer, magnet, and mentor to a new generation of American folk singer/songwriters. The article covers his arrival in New York City, the legendary Monday nights at the apartment on Houston Street, the creation of the Songwriters' Exchange and the Fast Folk Musical Magazine with its ambition to capture the artistic act at the very moment of its unfolding and its urgency to make it available immediately afterwards. (Article provided with the kind permission of Adelmo Quadrio and El Buscadero.)
   
  English translation

 

Jack's daughter, Miranda Hardy, has recorded an album of her songs which is dedicated to her father. It is available on August 19, 2022.

 

Tributes and Obituaries

• David Massengill's Tribute to His Friend, Jack Hardy (text and audio)
• Role Models: Amy Speace on Jack Hardy, American Songwriter (July 30, 2014)
• Remembering Jack Hardy, influential singer-songwriter, Sullivan County Democrat
  Provided with the kind permission of the Sullivan County Democrat
  
• "Night Master," a poem for Jack by Lisi Tribble
• Obituary - Jack Hardy, Maverick Magazine: First page  Second page
  Provided with the kind permission of Arthur Wood, Maverick Magazine
   
• Jack Hardy, Folk Singer and Keeper of the Tradition, Dies at 63, New York Times
• Folk world loses icon, legend in Jack Hardy, by Steve Ide
• sing hallelujah, for the guttersnipe lives, by Christian Bauman
• Jack Hardy 1947-2011, by Mike Regenstreif
• Jack Hardy Remembered, by Jim Abbott
• Walk-the-walk songwriting: Jack Hardy, 1947-2011, by Sharon Goldman
• The Passing, by Jonathan Byrd
• Jack Hardy, Singer-Songwriter and Fast Folk Founder, 1947-2011, by Michael Kornfeld
• Jack Hardy – 1947-2011, by Reg Meuross
• Jack Hardy, Folk Singer, Songwriter and Playwright, Dies in New York, by Frank Beacham
• R.I.P. Jack Hardy, mentor, master and songwriting legend, by Roy Kasten, KDHX - St. Louis
• Jack Hardy (household icon), by Rebecca Kuder
• E' morto Jack Hardy, scoprì Suzanne Vega, rockol.it
• Obit: Jack Hardy - 11 March 2011, Mudcat Café
• Jack Hardy, Folk Songwriter and Tireless Promoter, Dead at 63, by Brian Voerding
• In Memoriam: Jack Hardy 1947 – 2011, by Jeff Gold
• Jack Hardy (1947-2011), possoouvirumdisco.blogspot.com
• Folk Icon Jack Hardy Had U[niversity]ofH[artford] Roots, by MaryEllen Fillo
• Nocturnalist -- Songs for an Absent Comrade, by Sarah Maslin Nir
• Muere a los 63 años el cantautor Jack Hardy, Efe Eme
• To Jack Hardy from Rod MacDonald - In Remembrance
• A Tribute To Folk Legend, Jack Hardy, by Nanci Griffith
• Nanci Griffith reflects on impact of folk promoter Jack Hardy, by Peter Cooper
• Tim Robinson Tribute to Jack Hardy, by Matt Winters
• Jack Hardy Remembered, examiner.com
• Jack Hardy and three tons of bricks, by Rosemary Kirstein
• Poca visibilita' per la scomparsa di Jack Hardy, folk rock singer che influenzo' Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman e molti altri, by Giancarlo Passarella
• Jack Hardy passes away, Suzanne Vega Message Board
• Jack Hardy, Gone, by Robert Freeman Wexler
• New York/Jack Hardy, by Brian Rose
• New York/Lower East Side, by Brian Rose
• New York/Wyoming, by Brian Rose
• Jack Hardy, 63, folk singer who ran weekly "fast folk" workshops, The Villager
• Jack Hardy – songwriter and honorary Kerryman, The Kerryman  Full article
• Jack Hardy '70: Deceased at the age of 63, Hartt Alumni Chapter Weblog
• The Passing: RIP Jack Hardy, Roots Music Canada

Italy 2007	photo by Laura Pietra

"With the reissuing of Hardy's first 10 albums, the full range of his talents is showcased for the first time. [...] With his songs set firmly in the centuries-old tradition of Celtic balladry, Hardy shapes his metaphors in a vision that successfully blends history, mythology, romanticism, and politics."
- Boston Globe review of new boxed sets, The Collected Works of Jack Hardy