INSIDE MUSIC
by Rosemary Conte
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Faerie Elaine of the Silver Stream
I met Elaine
Silver in the
early 80s,
when she
was being
lauded as
Queen of the
New Jersey
Folk Sing-
ers. I was the
Clubdate Queen. And the man
who introduced us was The Jazz
Poet (The late, esteemed Charlie
Mosler.) We were a mixed bag
of established performers…and
simpatico…busy at work in tradi-
tional and non-traditional spaces
and events.
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We were,
at the heart
of us, all free
spirits. One
among us
was already
a consum-
mate busi-
ness person
who seemed
to know how to get what she
wanted. Among local musical
artists of that time Elaine Silver
was atypical. She knew how to
network before I even learned
the word. From her first CD to
her recent 20th, her career was
played out among audiences at
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