I have organized and booked the San Diego Folk Festival for 20 years (mostly at San Diego State University), and it continues today in a slightly altered form as the...
I first met Hank Bradley in Fresno, or maybe it was at the Sweets Mill Folk Festival, or maybe it was the Cabale Creamery in Berkeley....
I’ve been hosting a radio show this past year or so on the world music webcast, which is actually an Internet show and requires that you...
I’d only been in San Diego about a week. It was September and it was hot. My uncle Tony called them Santa Ana winds. They sure...
Like many kids who grew up during the ’50s, I guess I was attracted to (among other things) the Beat Movement. I read the books and...
The 1970s was a good time for fiddle contests. There were serious ones with cash prizes like the still-running Topanga Canyon contest and the long-running contests...
FRANK STOKES was born on the first day of 1888 in the little railroad siding town of Whitehaven, which is south of Memphis and not far...
There used to be a club on First and C Streets in downtown San Diego called the College Inn that was a long-time home to country...
Considering that the Adams Avenue Street fair happened last month, I wanted to share some thoughts from Lou Curtiss about the Street Fair 20 years ago....
