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The Bluebird Café – 50 Years

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Peter Feldmann

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 →

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The Folk Music Revival (Monterey, CA 1963)

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Peter Feldmann

“I always wanted to play different from anybody else . . . and it turned out to be bluegrass music.”
-Bill Monroe,
Monterey California, May 18, 1963 Continue reading →

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The Sixties in Folk Music / 9. Peter Feldmann

Posted on June 30, 2018 by 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 degrees. I … Continue reading →

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Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention: Beginnings

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Peter Feldmann

Peter tells the tale of how the Rolling Stones and Hell’s Angles helped get the Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention going, way back in the early 1970s . . . Continue reading →

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