Presenting: The New Christy Minstrels by The New Christy Minstrels

Presenting The New Christy Minstrels, also known as Exciting New Folk Chorus, is a studio album by the acoustic American folk music group The New Christy Minstrels. It was their debut album and was recorded in mid-April 1962. Columbia Records released the album in October 1962.Presenting The New Christy Minstrels won a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus in 1962 and occupied the Billboard 200 charts for two years, peaking at number 19. The album included a cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", which entered the pop singles charts in December 1962.This album, along with the group's next, The New Christy Minstrels in Person was reissued on a single CD as Presenting & In Person with two bonus tracks by Collectors' Choice Music in 2003.