The Kingston Trio Folk Concert Poster 1963 Charloteesville Virginia

Description

An original concert poster for the Kappa Sigma fraternity presents  The Kingston Trio performing at the Memorial Gymnasium on Sunday, May 19th, 1963 in Charlottesville, Virginia.   Ticket at Stacy's Music 111 Main Street and store history below.
Poster is  14x22
on cardboard and in very good - excellent condition for its age with tape/residue and tack holes in corners, some tape pulls on back and some other general wear/handling -- any light round shadow middle right on back/front is just camera lens shadow not on poster---  please see pictures for condition and ask questions in advance if helpful. Will be mailed well packed with insurance.
Wikipedia:
"
The Kingston Trio is an American
folk
and
pop music
group that helped launch the
folk revival
of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco
Bay Area
nightclub act with an original lineup of
Dave Guard
,
Bob Shane
, and
Nick Reynolds
. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of
LP records
, and helped alter the direction of popular music in the U.S.
The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their
first album
and its hit recording of "
Tom Dooley
", which sold over three million copies as a single.
The Trio released nineteen albums that made
Billboard
's
Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959,
a record unmatched for more than 50 years,
and the group still ranks in the all-time lists of many of
Billboard's
cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.
In 1961, the Trio was described as "the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business" and "the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick".
The Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter,
folk rock
, and
Americana
artists who followed in their wake.
The Kingston Trio continues to tour as of 2019 with musicians who licensed the name and trademark in 2017."
From the web: "Stacy’s Music Shop was started in 1945 by Carl “Monk” Stacy. It was his dream to open a record shop after he was done working in the Norfolk navel shipyards during World War II.
Being a very accomplished musician, Carl was in a fairly successful dance orchestra band in the mid 1920’s, and saw that Charlottesville needed a source to purchase prerecorded music. So when the war came to an end he used his life savings and opened Stacy’s Music.
Throughout the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s, Monk ran the business with his wife Mary and younger son Carl Jr. It wasn’t until the early 1970’s that Carl Jr. purchased the store from his father and continued the legacy throughout the mid 90’s. It was Carl R. Stacy Jr. who transformed the business from mainly record sales to the instrument retail shop it is today.
Stacy’s Music is still a family run business a
nd is now in its third generation of ownership. Shep Stacy, Monks grandson, now oversees the daily operations of the business.  To continue the legacy that his father and grandfather created, Shep has added a recording studio and extensive lesson program to satisfy the needs of budding musicians.  Stacy’s Music remains one of the oldest businesses in Charlottesville, and the best music shop for private music instruction and musical instruments in the area."