Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra Liner Notes

Leading up to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival the organizers asked Dudley Laufman to put together a band. He got together some folks he'd been playing for, and this was the start of the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra. They quickly became one of the leading bands of the contra dance revival, and in 1972 released a self-titled album (F-72-FW-3). I found a picture of the liner notes:

I couldn't find the text of these anywhere, so I had an LLM convert them to text and manually cleaned up the output:

"For lack of a better name, let's call ourselves The Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra. Dudley is the only one from Canterbury, but how many of the Budapest String Quartet are from Budapest?" said Newt Tolman when we were looking for a title prior to a Club 47 appearance. Of the thirty or so Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra musicians who play for dances or concerts at one time or another, we arranged for ten to make this record. Jack Sloanaker, bass (also plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, and piano), published the Square Dance Chord book, has trained several topnotch square dance pianists, produced the F&W String Band records, played with us at the Newport Folk Festival ('65) and at all our Club 47 shows. He lives in Cambridge, is a psychologist, and a director of the Farm and Wilderness Camps in Plymouth, Vermont. Pete Colby, banjo and autoharp, lives in Brookline, Mass. He is a draftsman and licensed gunsmith, having built a replica of a Kentucky rifle with which he won the Colorado Open. He makes fine musical instruments, including the two he plays on this record, the autoharp being the only gasoline operated rig of its kind. Ted Levin (alias Ichabod Crane), fiddle, piano, bass, penny whistle. A student at Amherst College, he is one of those musical geniuses who can play anything he picks up. He has had a ragtime band at Amherst, recorded with them and with a rock band also. Owns land in Windsor, N. H. and plans to build there soon., Nicholas S. Howe,…