ROONEY, JIM
(*1938)
ROONEY, JIM (b. Boston, Mass., January 28, 1938) A key figure in the Boston FOLK REVIVAL, Rooney has long been involved with country music, and produced a number of SINGER/SONGWRITERS in the 1980s. Rooney became involved in folk music while attending Harvard, where he met banjoist BILL KEITH . The two began performing together in 1960, about the time that Rooney became manager of the important Boston-area folk club, Club 47. From 1967 to 1969 he ran the Newport Folk Festival, an important…