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Jack Hardy (singer-songwriter) (John Studebaker Hardy) was born on 23 November, 1947, is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Jack Hardy (singer-songwriter)'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 64 years old?

Popular As John Studebaker Hardy
Occupation Singer-songwriter
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 23 November, 1947
Birthday 23 November
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Date of death 2011
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1947

John Studebaker "Jack" Hardy (November 23, 1947 – March 11, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter and playwright based in Greenwich Village, who was influential as a writer, performer, and mentor in the North American and European folk music scenes for decades.

1969

Hardy attended college at The University of Hartford, and in 1969 – then editor of the University of Hartford's The News-Liberated Press – Hardy was arrested and convicted of libel after publishing a lewd cartoon that attacked then president Richard Nixon.

Hardy was convicted and paid a $50 fine.

While the conviction was later overturned on appeal, Hardy remains the only person in the history of the United States that has ever been arrested and convicted of libeling the President of the United States.

Jack Hardy was predeceased by a brother, Jeff, who played bass in Jack's band and appeared on many of his recordings.

1970

He was cited as a major influence by Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, and others who emerged from that scene in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Hardy was the author of hundreds of songs, and toured for almost forty years.

He was also the founding editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine, a periodical famous within music circles for twenty years that shipped with a full album (and later, compact disc) in each issue, whose entire catalog is now part of the Smithsonian Folkways collection.

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Hardy hosted Monday-night songwriter's circles and pasta dinners at his apartment on Houston Street, a gathering notably open to both established artists and novices.

1977

He also began a small, informal songwriters' group at The English Pub in Greenwich Village, which later became a more formal songwriters' night at the Cornelia Street Cafe in December 1977.

1980

This group would later evolve into the Songwriter's Exchange, releasing an album on Stash Records in 1980.

1981

Eventually, the group formed a cooperative, led by Hardy, and in 1981 took over the booking of the Speakeasy, which became a thriving venue for songwriters.

1982

Hardy was also the founder and first editor of Fast Folk Musical Magazine in 1982.

Hardy was a graduate of the Pomfret School in Connecticut and the University of Hartford.

Although more popular in Europe than in his native United States for much of his career, the end of the 20th century brought a reignited interest in his music on his native shores.

Throughout, he toured on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hardy was a lyrical writer; his songs were political, although usually subtly so.

His music was often tinged with a Celtic flavor, although his last few albums took on more of a country & western style.

Both budget-conscious and disdainful of self-important artistic egos, Hardy recorded all of his albums (almost 15 of them, in a 40-year career) in the same manner: by rehearsing a small band and then recording the entire album "live to tape" in a period of 48 hours or less.

In the last few years of his life, Hardy toured with long-time friend and fellow songwriter David Massengill as a duo called the Folk Brothers.

In songwriter circles, Hardy was as well known as a teacher and mentor as he was as an artist.

Songwriters gathered at his hallowed Houston Street apartment one night a week to play their latest (and usually unfinished) work, and to face criticism from Hardy and their gathered peers.

Fueled by pasta and wine, the weekly songwriters' sessions were famous for the artistic and political conversations that flowed in them and the large number of remarkable songs that emerged from them.

Jack suffered neither egos nor nerves, and when the introduction to a new song got too long and/or apologetic from a songwriter, Hardy would bark, "Shut up and sing the song."

The hundreds of songwriters who frequented Hardy's apartment gatherings over the years included names both unknown and famous – among them, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Brian Rose, Richard Shindell, John Gorka, Tracy Allard, Frank Tedesso, Christian Bauman, Linda Sharar, Rod MacDonald, Lucy Kaplansky, Matthias Clark, Bob Chabot, and Christine Lavin.

The weekly songwriter's session itself made it into a number of songs by Hardy alumni, including "Jack's Crows" by John Gorka, the title song of Gorka's second album, and "Boulevardiers" by Suzanne Vega.

1996

Hardy was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the World Folk Music Association in 1996.

2001

Jeff Hardy, who worked as a chef for a financial services firm located in the World Trade Center, died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

2008

The group was also immortalized in fictional form in Christian Bauman's 2008 novel "In Hoboken," which included two chapters that took place in the Houston Street apartment, and a character named "Geoff Mason" who bore a striking (and, according to a public radio interview with Bauman, intentional) resemblance to Hardy.

While Hardy's name never achieved the level of fame of Vega, Gorka, or the many he recorded for Fast Folk (including Tracy Chapman, Lyle Lovett, David Wilcox, Elliott Murphy or The Roches), he continually built on his substantial catalog of literate, well-crafted songs.

2011

Hardy died on the morning of March 11, 2011, in Manhattan.

He was 63.

The cause was complications of lung cancer.

Jack Hardy was strongly identified with Greenwich Village's folk music scene in New York City.