Maureen Loughran was named director/curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian effective Monday (March 27).…
From the November/December 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERS Tony Trischka grew up with Pete Seeger’s banjo ringing in his house, by way of his parents’ records of the Weavers, the Almanac Singers, and Seeger’s folk songs for children. In 1962, at age 13, Trischka started getting serious about wanting to play. So he got…
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