Ronnie Gilbert obituary
Female vocalist with the Weavers, the folk group blacklisted by the FBI in the 1950sWhen the New York folk group the Weavers burst into the American and British pop charts in 1950 with the Lead Belly song, Goodnight Irene, it was Ronnie Gilbert's contralto voice that soared above her fellow group members " Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman. Like the other members of the group, Ronnie, who has died aged 88, had…