I have here a list of known folk musicians and some common typographical errors of their names. I hope this list helped. Thanks to FolkLib.Net for this.

A

• william akerman / will akerman — William Ackerman
• art altenberg — Art Altenburg
• john altenburg — John Altenburgh
• micheal lee ammons — Michael Lee Ammons
• ivar f. andresen — Ivar Andresen
• appleton boy choir — Appleton Boychoir
• kenny aranoff — Kenny Aronoff
• arnold eddie / eddie arnold — Eddy Arnold
• arron, chris / chris arron — Chris Aaron

B

• louie bashel / bashel louie — Louie Bashell
• ed beibel — Ed Biebel
• the behms — The Behm’s
• bunny berrigan — Bunny Berigan
• bickel, theodore / theodore bickel — Theo Bikel / Theodore Bikel
• blugrass / Blue Grass — Bluegrass
• blumfum / blumfumgognge — Biff Blumfumgagnge (Dave Morlock)
• suzy bogus / suzy boguss — Suzy Bogguss
• boine mary / mary boine — Mari Boine
• The Boogiemen — The Boogie Men
• l j booth / l. j. booth / lj booth — L.J. Booth
• patrick brickle — Patrick Brickel
• Jamie Briewick — Jamie Breiwick
• brooklyn’s (ex-venue in Oshkosh, WI) — Brooklyn Food & Spirits
• brown jackson — Jackson Browne
• buffet, jimmy / jimmy buffet — Jimmy Buffett
• buffet, peter / peter buffet — Peter Buffett

C

• cathasaigh — Ni Chathasaigh
• ceile band — Ceili Band, as in Public House Ceili Band, Kips Bay Ceili Band and others [aka Ceilidh Band]
• clam bake — Clambake
• cole bruce — Bruce Cole
• willa cooper — Wilma Lee Cooper
• copperbox — Copper Box
• curtis, katie / katie curtis / curtis, katey / katey curtis / kurtis, katie / katie kurtis — Catie Curtis
• the czarnina kid — “Czarnina Kid and Other Weird Tales” (Non-musical book, no book code assigned)

D

• jamie dawicki / jaime dawicki — Jayme Dawicki
• degrassi — Alex de Grassi
• dehaven, doc / doc dehaven — Doc De Haven
• dehaven, kelly / kelly dehaven — Kelly De Haven
• liz dehaven — Liz de Haven
• maureen del grosso / rich del grosso — Maureen DelGrosso, Rich DelGrosso
• iris diemont — Iris DeMent
• dickie lotus / lotus dickie — Lotus Dickey
• the dudes — The subdudes

E

• jeff eckles / steven zdenek eckles Jeff Eckels / Steven Zdenek Eckels
• elliot jack / jack elliot — Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
• william elwood — William Ellwood

F

• festvals — Wisconsin Music Festivals (all genres) / world-wide Folk Festivals and Bluegrass Festivals
• marianne fleming / marrianne flemming — Marianne Flemming
• what is a folkie? / what is a folky? — Folkie Profile
• fondy accoustic music alliance / fond du lac acoustic music alliance — Fondy Acoustic Music
• Alliance
• steven foster — Stephen Foster
• ft. atkinson — Fort Atkinson

G

• bobby gentry / gentry bobby / bob gentry / gentry bob — Bobbie Gentry
• great gabonzos — Great Garbonzos
• gilmour brothers — Gilmour Bros.
• goglick karen / karen goglick — Karen Gogolick
• guthry arlo / arlo guthry / arnold guthrie — Arlo Guthrie
• guthrie woodie / woodie guthrie / guthry woody / woody guthry / woodie guthry — Woody Guthrie

H

• candy haferman / candy hafermann / candace haferman / candace hafermann — Candace Kreitlow
• Ham ‘n Rye / Ham ‘N Rye — Ham ‘n Wry
• hammer dulcimer — see hammered dulcimer - Wisconsin players
• handcock keith / keith handcock — Keith Hancock
• stephen hazell — Steve Hazell
• howling wolf — Howlin’ Wolf

I

• los indios tabajaros / los indios tabajaras — Indios Tabajaras, Los

J

• joakum dwight / dwight joakum / dwight yoakum — Dwight Yoakam
• bill jorgensen — Bill Jorgenson
• just passing through — Jus Passin Thru

K

• sy kahn — Si Kahn
• “concertina” millie kaminsky — “Concertina” Millie Kaminski
• kurt kazulka — Kurt Kuzulka
• kerner, john / john kerner — “Spider” John Koerner
• kerner, ray & glover — Koerner, Ray & Glover
• knoppler, mark / mark knoppler — Mark Knopfler
• krauss, allison / allison krauss — Alison Krauss

L

• kd lang — k.d. lang
• bob laitenen — Bob Laitinen
• ledbelly / lead belly — Leadbelly
• tom lear / tom leer — Tom Lehrer
• little blue crunchie things / little blue cruncy things — Little Blue Crunchy Things
• ken lonquist — Ken Lonnquist
• the lyrebird duo — Lyrebird Duo, The
• lyricks / lyrics — List of Lyrics Sites

M

• madison mannerchor — Madison Maennerchor
• marcy marks — Marcy Marxer
• tom mccausland — Tom Clinton-McCausland
• laureena mckennit / laureena mckennitt / laureena mckennett / loreena mckennit / lorena mckennitt — Loreena McKennitt
• sean macractagan / sean mcratigan — Sean McRactagan
• menonminee — Menomonee Falls (northwest Milwaukee) or Menomonie (where UW-Stout is)
• meyer hans / hans meyer — Hans Mayer
• morais and miranda / marias / joseph marais — Marais and Miranda (Josef Marais, Miranda Marais)
• milevolt vinny / vinny milevolte — Vinny Millevolte
• chad miller trio — Chad Mitchell Trio
• joan mitchell / joanie mitchell — Joni Mitchell
• katie moffat / — Katy Moffatt
• mooney jim / jim mooney — Jym Mooney
• mt. morris — Mount Morris - city spelling rules
• muddy bottom boys — Soggy Bottom Boys
• mulvy peter / peter mulvy — Peter Mulvey
• michael martin murphy / Michael Murphey — Michael Martin Murphey
• music hound — MusicHound Books

N

• n carlos nakai — R. Carlos Nakai
• neenah jazz fest / jazzfest neenah — Neenah Jazz Festival
• ni cathasaigh — Ni Chathasaigh
• ni dhomhaill — Ni Dhomhnaill
• nonsuch — Nonesuch Records
• northernaire — Northern Aire Jazz Festival

O

• obrien / oconnel / odair / odonnell / omeara / oroark — o’brien, o’connel, o’dair, o’donell, o’meara
• phil oakes — Phil Ochs
• orchastra — orchestra
• outskirts trio — Outskirts (disbanded Wisconsin group)
• oysterband — The Oyster Band

P

• pandora’s grove — Pandora’s Groove
• parrot john / john parrot — John Parrott
• the pentangle — Pentangle
• jeff petrangelo / petrangelo, jeff — Jeff Pietrangelo
• the pheromones — Phabulous Pheromones
• pierce pattis — Pierce Pettis
• poor man’s labor — Poor Mans Labour
• willie porter — Willy Porter
• prageant brad / brad prageant — Brad Pregeant
• professor and maryann — Professor & Maryann
• pruitt marc / marc pruitt — Marc Pruett

R

• ramsay obray / obray ramsay — Obray Ramsey
• ramsey stu / stu ramsey — Stu Ramsay
• reflecent tide — Reflescent Tide
• revenson mark / mark revenson — Marc Revenson (aka Lil’ Rev)
• rhythum dogs — Rhythm Dogs Blues Band
• richie jean / jean richie — Jean Ritchie
• dick rogers — Dick Rodgers
• sarah roltgen — Sara Roltgen
• romero, angelo / angelo romero — Angel Romero
• rub board / rub-board — Rubboard
• scott rudolf — Scott Rudolph
• ruedebush, dick / dick ruedebush / dick reudebush / dick reudebusch — Dick Ruedebusch

S

• buffey st. marie / buffy st. marie / st marie buffy — Buffy Sainte-Marie
• randy sabine — Randy Sabien
• saxaphone — saxophone
• dorthy scott — Dorothy Scott
• scrugg steve — Steve Scruggs
• annalee scully — Anna Lee Scully
• tommy searcy / searcy tommy — Tom Searcy
• john seeger — John Sieger
• shadd rapp / shad rapp — Shad-Rapp
• richard shindel / shindel richard — Richard Shindell
• shortstuff — Short Stuff
• Bob Snyder / Doc Snyder / Robert L. Snyder (at UW Oshkosh) — Robert L. “Doc” Snyder
• sorenson eric k. / eric sorenson — Eric K. Sorensen
• sorenson randall / sorenson randy / randall sorenson — Randall Sorensen
• SPEBSQSA — Barbershop Harmony Society
• Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.
• steel bands — steel drum bands
• catfish stevens — Cat Stevens
• catfish stevenson — Catfish Stephenson
• barbara streisand — Barbra Streisand
• string along weekends — Stringalong Weekends
• darryl stuermer — Daryl Stuermer
• ima sumac — Yma Sumac
• sweet adalines — Sweet Adelines
• joanne jablonski szebini — Joanne Jablonski-Szebeni

T

• hanna jon taylor — Hanah Jon Taylor
• tepters — The Tempters
• art theme — Art Thieme
• thyrd time out / thyrd thyme out / thyrd tyme out / third time out / third thyme out / third tyme out / 3rd time out / 3rd thyme out / 3rd tyme out IIIrd time out / IIIrd thyme out — IIIrd Tyme Out
  travelling wilburys / travelling willburys / traveling willberries / travelling willburies — The Traveling Wilburys

U

• uncle pecos — Unkle Pecos & The Country Funkins
• michael underwood — Mike Underwood

V

• vanglenski, stas / stas vanglenski — Stas Venglevski
• vanzant — Townes Van Zandt
• vic ferraro — Vic Ferrari
• rhonda vinson — Rhonda Vincent
• vogel eric / eric vogel / vogle / bogel — Eric Bogle

W

• louis t webster — Louis Webster
• eric weissburg — Eric Weissberg
• west side andy — Westside Andy (Andy Linderman)
• john widdecombe — John Widdicombe
• 2001 award winners, 2002 award winners, 1981 - 1995 award winners — WAMI Award Nominees & Winners

Y

• glenn yarborough / glen yarborough — Glenn Yarbrough
• the yuppers — Da Yoopers

Other words: incorrect — correct

• apalachia — appalachia / appalachian
  auto harp — autoharp
  birth index — birthdays index
  irishfest — Irish Fest
  milwaukie wi — milwaukee wi [Milwaukie is in Oregon]

Other typos not related to Folk Music

• aaliyah
  metallica
  lionel ritchie
  ludacris
  mccarthyism

Others (New Artists)

1. Dick Allen
2. Jason Becker
3. Connie Brooks
4. Greg La Cosse
5. Marty Friedman
6. Richard Graham
7. Roni Griffith
8. Joe Hanson
9. Jeff Janda
10. Brian Lester
11. Carol McCue
12. Joe McDorman
13. Michelle O’Rourke
14. Marty Porto
15. William Reid
16. Matthew Schaefer
17. Steve Shauger
18. Gary Sparkman
19. Regina Spektor
20. Jay Stielstra
21. Jason Welch
22. Anona Winn

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