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Ralph Rinzler

Ralph Rinzler is credited on 483 releases across 86 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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483

Pressings credited

86

Albums

8

Decades active

100

In collections

Biography

Ralph Rinzler (July 20, 1934 – July 2, 1994) was an American mandolin player, folksinger, and the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian. This festival was from the beginning and continues to be a major event for musicians, artisans, and craftsman from a broad variety of American culture, including African American, Native American, Appalachian, Southern, Western and other groups in the United States. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Credited work

483 releases · 86 albums · active 1957–2025

  • Performance · 410
  • Other credits · 168
  • Engineering · 49
  • Production · 36

Studios: World Pacific Studios · Newport Folk Festival · 株式会社　同朋舎出版 · 株式会社　エディット

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