Advertisement
Rolly Brown is a world-class picker, guitar mentor, and podcaster. Along with Dave, Rolly will share music and memories of the late Happy Traum, an esteemed folksinger and founder of Home Spun Tapes, which mentored a whole generation of acoustic players. Audience conversation is welcomed. _____________
Dave’s Night Out is a monthly reoccurring series at Godfrey Daniels, curated by Dave Fry. Join us monthly for a delightful blend of music, humor, and thought-provoking conversations between Dave and his guests.
_____________
Rolly Brown
rollybrown.com
With 52 years of experience on the acoustic guitar, Rolly has been a National Fingerpicking Champion and a Philadelphia Music Award nominee. He has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Tasmanian Folk Festival, and tons of places in between. He hosted the Guitar Wizards radio show which ran on public radio in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Maine for several years, introducing listeners to guitarists and techniques usually searched out only by total guitar maniacs. He has served as a sideman for Magpie, Winnie Winston, Saul Broudy, Jack McGann, Priscilla Herdman, Jay Ansill, and many others, and has performed extensively with National Flatpicking Champion Mark Cosgrove, and, until her tragic death, with the late fiddler and singer extraordinaire Freyda Epstein. For the past two decades, Rolly has been a popular teacher and performer at many guitar camps, appearing at Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamps (Maryville TN), the Swannanoa Gathering (Asheville NC), Summer Acoustic Music Week in New Hampshire, the convention of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society in Nashville TN, and others. His YouTube videos (instructional and performance) have garnered well over 100,000 hits. For more info, link to the Rolly Brown Guitar Page. In the past three years, Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop has released 13 of Rolly’s Instructional DVDs, characterized by his clear, easy-to-understand teaching style.
___________
Remembering Happy Traum (1938 – 2024)
happytraum.com
Happy Traum was a Renaissance man in both senses of the term, a person of wide and deep interests and pursuits and a man capable of invention and reinvention throughout the long life that just ended after 86 eventful years.
Happy Traum was smitten by American folk music and began playing guitar and 5-string banjo as a teenager. He was an active participant of the legendary Washington Square/Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1950s and ‘60s, and studied guitar with the famed blues master, Brownie McGhee.
A first-rate fingerstyle guitarist and singer, he has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan, both as a soloist and as a member of various groups. His avid interest in traditional and contemporary folk music has brought him recognition as a performer, writer, editor, session musician, teacher and recording artist.
“Happy Traum was a Renaissance man in both senses of the term, a person of wide and deep interests and pursuits and a man capable of invention and reinvention throughout the long life that just ended after 86 eventful years. He accomplished what many people yearn for—a balanced life, in which art, commerce, family, and friends peacefully and fruitfully bonded and blended.”
Advertisement
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Godfrey Daniels, 7 E 4th St,Bethlehem,PA,United States
Tickets