New Jersey Stage 2017: Issue 7 | Page 97

INSIDE MUSIC by Rosemary Conte SHARE BUTTON 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. NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 6 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 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 97