Maria Muldaur
Image No. 64-11N-63: Jim Kweskin Jug Band 1964 Newport Folk Festival (Left to right) Mel Lyman, Maria D'Amato (soon to be Muldaur), Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Bill Keith The Jim Kweskin Jug Band was the first of the jug bands formed in the 60s folk revival and it gained the most widespread popularity. Before disbanding in 1968, the Jug Band shared billing in the psychedelic ballrooms of San Francisco with Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Doors.
Image No. 65-16N-23: Maria and Jenni Muldaur Viking Hotel, Newport, R.I., July 1965
Image No. 64-9-7: Lovebirds Onstage Club 47, Cambridge, Mass., July 1964 Maria D'Amato and Geoff Muldaur, the summer before they were married.
Image No. 63-11-32: Maria D'Amato New York City, October 1963 Maria D'Amato played in the Even Dozen Jug Band in New York before moving to Cambridge, joining the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and marrying Geoff Muldaur. At a music party in artist Harry Jackson's Greenwich Village loft, Maria plays with painter-musician Bob Neuwirth (L.) and old-time guitarist Tex Isley (R.). Visible between Maria and Tex is a fragment of Jackson's painting "The Range Burial," which now hangs in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.