Tag Archives: Mance Lipscomb
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 degrees. I … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Santa Barbara Folk Music: The 1960s
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Tagged Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Bill Monroe, Bluebird Cafe, Bob Dylan, California bluegrass, Mance Lipscomb, Monterey Folk Festival 1963, The Dillards, The Weavers, Tom Ashley and Doc Watson (his first West Coast trip)
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Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention: Beginnings
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 →
Posted in General
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Tagged Bill Monroe, fiddler, Folk Music, Mance Lipscomb, Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, old time music, Peter Feldmann, santa barbara, UCSB
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