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After a long career onstage and off, Ellen Stekert \u201957 is focused on preservation\u2014releasing songs from her vast archive on Bandcamp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Melissa Newcomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At age 13, lying in a hospital bed recovering from polio, Ellen Stekert \u201957<\/a> borrowed her older brother\u2019s guitar and learned to play to pass the time. It would lead to a decades-long career\u2014not only in music but in academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stekert is a veteran folk singer who has released several albums and performed widely; she\u2019s also a collector and curator of folk music and a scholar who has advanced the teaching of folklore studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo me, a folk song is an expression of a person,\u201d says Stekert, a professor emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFolk songs are handed down\u2014but the person singing it chooses that song, and sings it in ways that express themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Stekert no longer sings publicly due to surgery that impacted her vocal cords\u2014she jokes, however, that she \u201ccan still talk your ear off\u201d\u2014she\u2019s currently digitizing and releasing recordings from her vast archive, much of which has not been made public before.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Ellen<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In spring 2025, she released her first new album in 67 years, using a technology that musicians could have scarcely imagined back when her last one came out: the Bandcamp website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled Go Around Songs, Vol. 1<\/em><\/a>, it features 10 tunes, including a cover of Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cBoth Sides Now\u201d and Stekert\u2019s version of the traditional \u201cScarborough Fair\u201d (made famous, in a very different arrangement, by Simon & Garfunkel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To me, a folk song is an expression of a person. Folk songs are handed down\u2014but the person singing it chooses that song, and sings it in ways that express themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Stekert has also been releasing individual songs from her archive. They include \u201cThe Ballad of Frankie Silver<\/a>,\u201d which tells the true story of a wife condemned to death for the 1831 murder of her husband\u2014a tale that Stekert first encountered in a 1952 book of North Carolina folklore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis feeble hands fell gentle down \/ His chattering tongue soon lost its sound \/ To see his soul and his body part \/ It strikes terror in my heart \/ I took his blooming days away \/ Left him no time to God to pray \/ And if sins fall upon his head \/ Must I bear them in his stead?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Ballad of Frankie Silver”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A native of Great Neck, Long Island, Stekert was introduced to the Greenwich Village folk scene by a high school classmate who\u2019d go on to be a founding member of the famed New Lost City Ramblers<\/a>; at musical gatherings, she met luminaries like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had an innate curiosity of wanting to get out and see what the world looked like,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI was raised in a privileged suburb, and I wanted to learn all about what else there was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three of Stekert’s albums.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stekert had already recorded songs for her first album by the time she matriculated on the Hill, where she majored in philosophy in Arts & Sciences and helped found the Cornell Folk Song Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her gigs on campus included solo shows in Goldwin Smith; she was a TA for Harold Thompson\u2019s legendary American folk literature class, popularly known as \u201cRomp-n-Stomp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stekert was a TA for Harold Thompson\u2019s legendary American folk literature class, popularly known as “Romp-n-Stomp.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She performed at folk festivals, state fairs, arts venues, and elsewhere\u2014often incorporating mini-lectures about the material\u2019s history into her shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stekert would even play recordings of traditional versions so audiences could hear how they originally sounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the Hill for a return performance in 1960.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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That segued into an academic career. Stekert earned a master\u2019s in folklore and anthropology from Indiana University and a doctorate in folklore from Penn; she taught at Wayne State University for a decade before joining the University of Minnesota faculty in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went on to serve as Minnesota\u2019s first State Folklorist, found the Center for the Study of Minnesota Folklife, and serve as president of the American Folklore Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, at age 90 and long retired from teaching, Stekert is focused on preserving her life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An avid collector of folk songs for decades, Stekert had kept her archive of audiotapes and other analog media in temperature-controlled storage, but they were becoming fragile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has been digitizing her collection with the help of a musician in his 20s\u2014whom she met after she sold him a photo of Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival on eBay and learned he was a fan of hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“High Floods & Low Waters” <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Among her newly released singles is a recording of a \u201clost\u201d Woody Guthrie song, \u201cHigh Floods & Low Waters<\/a>,\u201d which had gone unheard since Stekert and several other artists performed it on a CBS TV program in 1959.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written in the 1940s, the song contrasts Southern floods with the devastating droughts then causing water shortages in NYC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ellen
Camping during a 1996 trip to collect folk music from a source’s last living descendant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Guthrie never published a recording or even its lyrics, Stekert says, and the CBS performance is the only version of which she\u2019s aware. But the lyrics still resonate\u2014perhaps, in an era of climate change, even more than when Guthrie wrote it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBow down with your neighbor and ask yourselves why \/ Some cities are flooded while others bone-dry<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top: Stekert performing early in her folk career. (Photo by Howard Mitchell<\/em>; all other images provided.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published December 5, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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