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Barry Olivier was born on 2 November, 1935 in United States, is an American musician (1955–2023). Discover Barry Olivier's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?
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2 November, 1935 |
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23 September, 2023 |
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Barry Olivier Height, Weight & Measurements
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Barry Olivier Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Barry Olivier worth at the age of 87 years old? Barry Olivier’s income source is mostly from being a successful musician. He is from United States. We have estimated Barry Olivier's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Barry Olivier (November 2, 1935 – September 23, 2023) was an American guitar teacher who was the creator and producer of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival from 1958 to 1970.
Olivier grew up living in the San Francisco Bay Area cities of Belvedere, Brentwood and Berkeley, moving several times as his father was a school principal.
He moved to Berkeley in 1947 as a teenager.
Olivier was part of the Berkeley folk music scene from the 1950s onward.
He started a music instrument shop in Berkeley, The Barrel Folk Music Center, to serve the growing folk music community during the mid-1950s.
He was influenced by folk revivalists such as Burl Ives, Carl Sandburg, and John Jacob Niles, who he saw perform on campus at Cal. Beginning in 1956 he hosted “The Midnight Special” on KPFA radio.
In 1958, Olivier, as a former student of UC Berkeley envisioned and created The Berkeley Folk Festival which became an annual event, directed and produced by Olivier, until 1970.
Associate festival producer John Chambless described Olivier as having produced the festivals almost single-handedly and with "enormous good taste."
He produced all of Joan Baez’s Northern California concerts from 1962 to 1973.
Joan Baez concert handbill, 16 April 1967 (Barry Olivier, Producer)
In 1974, Olivier's archive of folk festival materials was acquired by Northwestern University (ibid).
Olivier lived in Berkeley until the early 1980s, and then lived his remaining years in Oakland, California.
This festival was the subject of history and American studies professor Michael J. Kramer’s research seminar “Digitizing Folk Music History: The Berkeley Folk Festival.” In May 2011, he spoke at Northwestern about his experience during the 1960s.
In 2021, Northwestern University (ibid) published its digital archive of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival.
Olivier was a Bay Area guitar teacher.
He taught a young boy from El Cerrito, California named John Fogerty his first guitar lessons, and helped Kate Wolf perfect her guitar playing technique.
He was the father of five children.
Barry Olivier retired from teaching in 2019, after being diagnosed with dementia.
He died on the morning of September 23, 2023, at the age of 87.
In June 2020, his students formed a public Facebook group, Friends of Barry Olivier.
