Happy Traum’s presence as a member of the Acoustic Blues Festival’s faculty follows 50 years of experience as a guitar instructor, a vocation that occurred in tandem with performing and recording. “These camps are the real way that folk […]
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At about ten after ten on Christmas Eve, I was sitting on the couch across from my oldest son, each of us engrossed in our own digital universes. Mindlessly killing time by scrolling through Facebook on my phone, an image […]
Snow was general over the mountains, just a little more to the north, but Woodstock basked over Thanksgiving weekend in chilly air and the last fall leaves, hanging on and brightening the streets and yards of the little town. The […]
Richard Thompson has recently graced the Hudson Valley with his summer songwriting and acoustic guitar camp, Frets and Refrains. Now in its fifth wildly successful year, Frets and Refrains welcomed to the ranks of instructors this time around a man who is, […]
Happy Traum has been a long time folk artist dating back to 50’s when he was collaborating with his brother, Artie and singing with Bob Dylan. He and his brother released three albums, Happy and Artie Traum (1970, Capitol), Double […]
Scholarships are still available for this year’s Frets and Refrains, Richard Thompson’s songwriting and guitar camp, held at Blue Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY (about 40 minutes from Woodstock). Dates this year are July 11 – 15, 2016. They […]
Americana music can claim several music towns as its home. There was Austin in the early 1970s, Laurel Canyon during the same time, Muscle Shoals in the late ’60s and early ’70s (though less a scene in the same sense […]
He might have been — no, he was — given the name Harry Peter Traum at birth, back at the beginning of May 1938 in the Bronx, New York, but Happy Traum goes by a nickname that says it like it is. A […]
Some dream bils have yet to be dreamed of, but happen anyway. That’s one way to describe the double-header show at McCabe’s Guitar Store in Santa Monica last Saturday, January 18. The week before the National Association for Music Merchant’s […]
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