I came across this New Christy Minstrels album cover in the Retro Records Flickr Group. Clothes of the paleo-future are often impractical but I really don’t mind what this woman is wearing. The ...

The shows have become almost a tradition of sorts that music lovers now look forward to year after year. Each year, on Valentine season, the soloists of the ’70s show band The New Minstrels get ...

Randy Sparks, who founded the folk ensemble New Christy Minstrels, passed away on February 11. He was in assisted-living facility in San Diego and his son Kevin confirmed the death to The New York ...

Mr. Sparks sold his interest in the New Christy Minstrels in the mid-1960s for $2.5 million, the equivalent of about $24 million today, and moved his family to rural Northern California.

DEADWOOD — In the 50 years since Randy Sparks invented the big folk group, his New Christy Minstrels has gone through many changes, including the inevitable personnel changes.

Randy Sparks, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and founder of the folk music group the New Christy Minstrels, died Feb. 11 at an assisted-living facility in San Diego.He was 90. His son, Kevin ...