David Wilson
Bio:
In the ‘60s, David Wilson was the publisher and editor of Broadside of Boston, one of the founding directors and sometimes editor of Boston’s underground newspaper, Avatar. He started a record distribution company, Riverboat Records, left it for several years and and later returned to be its manager. He also managed at one time or another two Boston coffeehouses, Café Yana and The Odyssey and a short lived video theater, The Video Frontier. He was director of Folk Music for MIT’s FM station, a writer for WGBH TV’s “Folk Music USA,“ and the Peabody winning ‘What’s Happening Mr. Silver?†He has an abiding interest in the field of traditional, Americana, roots and folk music while still finding much to his liking in many other forms as well. Off and on, these days, he works at developing his concept of video as gallery art.
Recent Articles:
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The Cultural Center At Eagle Hill, Hardwick, MA Music
A Cultural Experiment Takes Root in Central Mass
By: - Dec 10th, 2009The Cultural Center At Eagle Hill is ambitious, original and offers a model we fervently wish would be adopted by other communities.
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Jerry Corbitt's CD Along for the Ride Music
Catching Up With an Old Friend
By: - Nov 25th, 2009Reviewing a new country flavored CD by Jerry Corbitt was an opportunity to reflect on a friend. Wilson managed him before Corbitt joined the Youngbloods and a career as solo performer,writer, producer and sideman. Recently they reconnected through Facebook.
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Harvard Square Celebrates Folk Era Opinion
Performances and Exhibitions Through Nov. 30
By: - Nov 17th, 2009Joan Baez got her start singing at Club 47 on Mount Auburn Street in Harvard Square. Her then boyfriend, Bod Dylan, would fall by and jam. Tom Rush ambled over from his dorm at Harvard. Tim Hardin, Jim Kewskin, Geoff and Maria Muldaur and Mel Lyman appeared. Later Club 47 morphed into Club Passim. There is a city wide celebration of that folk era in Harvard Square through November. David Wilson, the publisher of the seminal Broadside provides the liner notes for this historic event.
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David Omar White - A Remem-bromance People
Recalling Artist/ Illustrator and White Rabbit
By: - Nov 14th, 2009The Boston artist/ illustrator David Omar White (1927-2009) died on June 26. He is fondly recalled by David Wilson, the publisher/ editor of Avatar, Broadside/Free Press, from their many collaborations during the turmoil of the underground press in the 1960s. Wilson started the White Rabbit comic strip which Omar took over. It later appeared in the Cambridge Phoenix, The Real Paper, and the Boston Globe. His last gallery affiliation was with Boston's former Genovese Sullivan Gallery.Though confined to a wheel chair he created and exhibited until the end.
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