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The Bluebird Café – 50 Years
the Bluebird Café’s real mission was to form a center and school for acoustic music of all types on the central coast. Folk, Cajun, blues and bluegrass all found a home there, along with early country and a smattering of classical, jazz, eastern, and experimental musics. Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 11. Gene McGeorge
When I first met Peter Feldmann in Santa Barbara in the early 60s, I had been playing in a Mariachi band with some of my fellow construction friends. My style was too classical-formal (after five years of childhood training), but … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 10. Kajsa Ohman
Giving up music for life is something I do periodically. Whether this is due to some innate fear of failure or another fear—that music is so wonderful and powerful it might take over my life—I don’t know. I do know … Continue reading →
The Sixties in Folk Music / 9. Peter Feldmann
A Swiss Hillbilly Discovers America Peter Feldmann My family emigrated from Switzerland shortly after World War II. I recall landing at Burbank Airport in the middle of August (LAX had not yet been built.) The temperature was an even 100 … Continue reading →
