Hi folks,

Ellen’s personal archives include hundreds of photographs of interest to fans of folk music and folklore. We are just starting to digitize, clean up, and organize this treasure trove of images, which includes material from Ellen’s folksong collecting trips, her childhood in 1940s and 1950s New York, and Ellen’s concerts and other public appearances. We will be posting many of these here on ellenstekert.com, and plan to offer some of the best of these for sale as prints and posters in the near future. (More details on that very soon!) 

We thought we’d start with images taken at the historic Newport Folk Festival in 1964. Most of these have never been publicly released before now. These photos include intimate and informal behind-the-scenes images of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Malvina Reynolds, Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, and many more. Check it out on the Photography page!