I first heard a Connie Converse song at a holiday house party in 2010. […] I sought out the host. “Oh,” he said. “That’s Connie Converse. She made these home recordings in the nineteen-fifties, but ...

The artist quit music in the early '60s, then later disappeared so completely even her family didn't know where she'd gone. Now, an album of her... The mysterious story of Connie Converse, the ...

New York, NY. Critically acclaimed Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Hope Levy brings her story of folk legend Connie Converse to the New York stage in an award-winning smash-up of storytelling and ...

"How Brief," Kelly McCormack's Sundance-selected short film inspired by the music of vanished '50s singer-songwriter Connie Converse, has unveiled a stirring teaser. The cast of the short, which world ...

When writers say they’ve discovered unknown musicians, they’re usually talking about artists on small labels or based outside of big cities. In his new book “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, ...

It’s only human to love a good mystery, and the 1974 disappearance of singer-songwriter and anti-racist activist Elizabeth “Connie” Converse is a doozy. Born in New Hampshire in 1924, Converse led a ...

Before the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez made waves in the folk scene of the 1960s, Connie Converse quietly shared her self-penned songs amongst friends during the early 1950s. However, her ...

The US female singer-songwriter made stunning, forward-thinking songs in the 1950s, but was barely known – and aged 50, she disappeared. Now, with a new re-release of her music, she's recognised as a ...

The singer-songwriter Connie Converse was born in 1924 and raised in New Hampshire. Her musical and creative aspirations took her, along with so many others, to Greenwich Village and the city at large ...

Billboard’s top-selling single of 1954 was “Little Things Mean a Lot,” a syrupy-sweet ballad sung by Kitty Kallen and laden with orchestral strings. Kallen’s soft coo — “Blow me a kiss from across the ...

The singer-songwriter Connie Converse has been described by fans as a precursor to Bob Dylan. But when she made music in New York City in the early to mid-1950s, no one paid much attention. So she ...