Oscar Brand, a folk troubadour, raconteur, broadcaster and writer whose radio show "Folksong Festival" aired for 70 years and helped introduce then-unknown entertainers such as Bob Dylan ...

BRAND: Oscar Brand died Friday at the age of 96. He heralded the folk movement in the late 1940s and '50s. He interviewed everyone from Woody Guthrie to Joan Baez, B.B. King and Lead Belly.

Folksinger, songwriter and radio host Oscar Brand, known for his long-running New York radio show, “Folksong Festival,” died Friday at his home in Great Neck. He was 96. Brand died of ...