About The Gateway Groups

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <A HREF="http://dnads.directnic.com/oasisc.php?s=3&w=468&h=60"> <IMG SRC="http://dnads.directnic.com/oasisi.php?s=3&w=468&h=60" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0></A> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=2 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="9e064643.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div>              </div> <div> <B>THE FABULOUS GATEWAY SINGERS</B></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewaycdsale.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers Now on CD"><I><B>Now on CD</B></I></A></div> <div> About The Gateway Groups</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="976" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2287 WIDTH="170"><div> <A HREF="gatewaycdsale.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers Now on CD">Gateway CDs</A></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewaymemories7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Recollections 7">Memories</A></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewayalbums.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Recordings">Records</A></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewayhistory.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers History">History</A></div> <div> <A HREF="biographies.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Singers">Biography</A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers Home Page">Home</A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="508"><div> The Weavers had been a long-established folk group in America, with traditional ties and a purist  approach to their material.  They might be considered to be  the foundation stone on which the whole commercial boom of the fifties and sixties rested.  But with their roots and orientation, there was almost a lining which separated them from the structure they came to “support.”</div> <bR> <div> If there was to evolve a West Coast version of the eastern group, it was bound to be innovative, splashy and contemporary - as one would expect from anything to spring from California soil.</div> <bR> <div> And those are exactly the qualities which characterized The Gateway Singers, the quartet which represented the vanguard of a movement that  successfully swept across America during the next decade and a half.</div> <bR> <div> Mentors to the Kingston Trio, among others, The Gateway Singers can be credited not only with popularizing folk music but also, taking it beyond the coffee houses and putting it on the concert stage - modifying, re-shaping, reworking folk material to make it more acceptable to contemporary  ears.</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="282"><div> More about </div> <div> Gateway Singers</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="gatewayhistory.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers History">History of The Gateway Singers</A></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewaysound.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Gateway Singers Sound">The Gateway Sound</A></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewayethos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers Ethos">Ethos Behind the Group</A></div> <div> <A HREF="gatewaytrio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About The Gateway Trio">The Gateway Trio</A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Gateway Singers</B></div> <div> <B>now on CD</B></div> <div> Puttin' on the Style - hungry i</div> <div> In Hi fi - On The Lot - Wagons West</div> <div> <B>Spring Sale</B></div> <div> <I>click the CD for more info</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="gatewaycdsale.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gateway Singers Now on CD"><B><IMG SRC="a015a5a0.gif" border=0 width="90" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="a6664640.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="a6764640.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="a6864640.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="a6964640.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="a6a64640.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Don't miss The Folk Memories Archive at</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hungryi.net/contents.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.hungryi.net/contents.htm"><U>http://www.hungryi.net/contents.htm</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>   <script language="Javascript"> // do not make any changes to anything past this point or tracking script will not work var data; 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