Hardy, Jack
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Jack Hardy was an American singer-songwriter based in Greenwich Village, NYC since the mid seventies and a vastly influential figure in the American and European folk music scenes for decades. He was cited as a major influence by Suzanne Vega & John Gorka among others. He was also the founding editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine, that for 20 years had a full album in each issue and whose entire catalog is now part of Smithsonian Folkways. While Hardy's name never achieved the level of fame of Vega, Gorka, or the many he recorded for Fast Folk (i.e. Tracy Chapman, Lyle Lovett, David Wilcox, Elliott Murphy or The Roches), he continually built on his substantial catalog of acute, well-crafted songs and was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the World Folk Music Association in 1996.