* 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player

* 1969 – Jack Canfora, American playwright

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor

* 1969 – Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist

* 1969 – Warren Defever, American musician and composer ( His Name Is Alive )

* 1969 – Chandra Wilson, American actress

* 1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Heatmiser ( d. 2003 )

* 1969 – Troy Percival, American baseball player

* 1969 – Estella Marie Thompson, American prostitute

* 1969 – Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player

Agrarianism in American Literature ( 1969 )

* 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player

* 1969 – David Wain, American actor

* 1969 – Doug Overton, American basketball player

* 1929 – Roy Hamilton, American singer ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Stacy Francis, American singer and actress ( Ex Girlfriend )

* 1969 – Fernando Viña, American baseball player

* 1969 – Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American astronaut

* 1969 – DJ Uncle Al, American rapper and DJ ( d. 2001 )

* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt

* 1926 – Julius Katchen, American pianist ( d. 1969 )

* 1969 – Cris Judd, American actor, dancer, and choreographer

Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson ; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

* 1969 – Andy Cutting, English folk musician and composer

This, and the subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, John Wesley Harding ( 1967 ) and Nashville Skyline ( 1969 ), have been seen as creating the genre of country folk.

Fairport Convention released Liege and Lief in 1969, turning away from American-influenced folk rock toward a sound based on traditional British music and founding the sub-genre of electric folk, to be followed by bands like Steeleye Span and Fotheringay.

He played with several jazz bands before joining the electric folk band, Fairport Convention, in August 1969.

Wakeman joined the folk group Strawbs in 1969 and played on three of their albums.

Months before his performance at Woodstock in 1969, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens told Ebony magazine about his appreciation for Clarke's story and expressed his personal interest in working on a future film adaptation of Childhood's End.

This, and the subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, John Wesley Harding ( 1967 ) and Nashville Skyline ( 1969 ), have been seen as creating the genre of country folk, a route pursued by a number of, largely acoustic, folk musicians.

Experimental Irish folk group, Dr. Strangely Strange, recorded a song titled " Ship of Fools " on their debut album Kip of the Serenes ( 1969 ).

Returning to Los Angeles in 1969, Darin started Direction Records, putting out folk and protest music.

Tanita Tikaram ( born 12 August 1969, Münster, Germany ) is a British pop / folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits " Twist in My Sobriety " and " Good Tradition " from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart.

Others, probably influenced by the electric folk pioneered by Fairport Convention from 1969, moved towards more traditional material, a category including Dando Shaft, Amazing Blondel, and Jack the Lad, an offshoot of northern progressive folk group Lindisfarne, who were one of the most successful UK bands of the early 1970s.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style ( often in open tunings ), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

*" Day-O ", 1969, Jamaican folk song recorded by Harry Belafonte

Local ethnographic bands were formed after Leiko, a choir from Värska, came together in 1964, while a less regionally-distinct form of Estonian folk music was soon promoted, Estonian Ring Dance beginning with the formation of Leigarid in 1969.

Today, Seattle Center is host to the Bite of Seattle, Bumbershoot, a music and art festival that draws crowds in the hundreds of thousands every Labor Day Weekend, Northwest Folklife Festival on Memorial Day Weekend, a comparably large folk music and folk culture festival, which somehow manages to stay in the black despite being free to all comers, and PrideFest, a finali of the much larger event Seattle Gay Pride Parade like many other cities every year in late June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots proudly flying the pride flag atop the Space Needle for the first time in 2010.

The Davudova Mingacevir State Theatre was established on the basis of folk theatre in 1969 ( Pic 21 ).

Folk rock act Pesniary, formed in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin, became the most popular folk band of the Soviet Union, and often toured over Europe.