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The Sixties in Folk Music / 11. Gene McGeorge

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

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 →

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Arnold Shultz: Black fiddling and bluegrass music

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Peter Feldmann

The first time I met Bill Monroe (regarded as the “Father of Bluegrass Music”) in May of 1963, he mentioned some of the people that influenced the development of the musical style that was later to be named after his … Continue reading →

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