Oscar Brand (born February 7, 1920, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a folk singer and songwriter. In his career, spanning over 60 years, he has composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums. He has played alongside such legends of American folk music as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger. He currently resides in Great Neck, New York. is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Motto: Template:Unhide = Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Location City Information Established: 1738 (Fort Rouge), 1873 (City of Winnipeg) Area: 465. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YT NT NU Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard - Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 14 - Senate seats 6 Confederation... Leadbelly, also known as Lead Belly (born Huddie William Ledbetter; January 20, 1889 (although this is debatable) - December 6, 1949), was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced. ... Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912–October 3, 1967) was a prolific American folk musician. ... Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. ... Great Neck is a village in Nassau County, New York, in the USA, on the North Shore of Long Island. ...

He has been hosting the radio show Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival [1] every Saturday at 10 pm, on WNYC-AM 820 in New York City. The show has run more or less continuously since 1945, making it one of the longest-running shows on radio or television, and the longest-running radio show with the same host, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. (The Grand Ole Opry, with different hosts, beats it by a good margin, having been broadcast since the 1920s.) The show recently celebrated its 60th anniversary on Dec 10th, 2005. Over its run it has introduced such talents to the world as Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Huddie Ledbetter, Joni Mitchell, and Pete Seeger. Other notable guest performers over the years have included Harry Chapin, Burl Ives, Harry Belafonte, John Denver, and B.B. King. WNYC (93. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised on Great American Country network. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ... Leadbelly (January 29, 1885 - December 6, 1949) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. ... Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. ... Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. ... Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (14 June 1909 – 14 April 1995), an Academy Award winner, was an acclaimed American folk music singer, author, and actor. ... Harold George Belafonte, Jr. ... John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. ... Riley B. King aka B. B. King (b. ...

His score for the 1968 Off-Broadway How to Steal An Election sent up the current belief that charisma would help a candidate win. Standout lyrics include Charisma (as sung by Calvin Coolidge) and Down Among the Grassroots. The album cover was decorated with election buttons including the 1968 Nixon campaign.

Oscar Brand has also won the Peabody Award for broadcast excellence in 1982 for his broadcast The Sunday Show on National Public Radio, and was awarded the Personal Peabody Award in 1997 (shared with Oprah Winfrey). The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ... “NPR” redirects here. ... Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ...

Brand is well known for writing catchy, themed, folk songs -- including the theme music to his show, "Something to Sing About" -- and has collaborated on a number of musicals, most notably The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN (a musical version of Leo Rosten's The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N), and A Joyful Noise. Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908–February 19, 1997) was born on 11 April 1908 in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died on 19 February 1997 in New York. ... A Joyful Noise is a musical with a book by Edward Padula and music and lyrics by Oscar Brand and Paul Nassau. ...

References

• Official website [2]
• Canadian Encyclopedia entry [3]
• The Folksong Festival [4]