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Pinewoods Camp in Plymouth, Massachusetts each summer. As well as organizing traditional music events and performances, she wrote serious and funny songs, and poems, and seasonal plays, and she performed frequently as a solo artist as well as in a duo known as Crossover with Andy Wallace, an American traditional singer (1984 - 1986); in trios including Poor Old Horse with David Jones (English) and Tom Gibney (American) (1992 - 2005); and as TradMore with David Kleiman and Ken Schatz, two American blokes). She was determined to keep traditional English music alive, and in her later years influenced many unaccompanied folksingers who she dubbed collectively as "the young," a number of whom sang her to her rest at Stony Brook University Hospital, where she died. Heather Wood lived in New York City from 1977 until her death on 15 July 2024, at the age of 79.
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