[2] The two were introduced to a new audience when their version of "I'll Fly Away" from this album, which had been re-released by Rykodisc on CD in 1996, was used in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Producer Harold Leventhal included them in the March 17, 1956 Bound for Glory tribute/benefit concert at New York's Pythian Hall[7][8] for the hospitalized Woody Guthrie and his children.
[9] For an overflow audience of more than a thousand,[10] they sang three of Guthrie's songs,[11] exhibiting "sweet harmonizing," as Pete Seeger later recounted.
In 1964, the couple also joined with Jackie Washington Landrón to form the Boston Folk Trio,[14] and in the New York City area with Happy Traum (whom Irene had known since they were teenagers), to present school concerts through the non-profit Young Audiences Arts for Learning.
At 15, they attended a summer camp at which Pete Seeger and other well-known folk singers often performed, and they developed a life-long attachment to the genre.
They quickly discovered the bustling folk music scene in the Greenwich Village section of New York City and mingled with the people who congregated in Washington Square Park.