Happy Traum
Happy Traum is an American folk musician from New York who started playing music in the 1950s and became a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. He studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style. Happy has released several albums with his brother, Artie, with whom he performed for several years as a duo. He is now a solo artist and the founder of Homespun Music Instruction. Happy can be heard on Bob Dylan’s “Greatest Hits, Vol. 2”, as well as albums by John Sebastian, Chris Smither, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Pacheco, Priscilla Herdman, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Eric Andersen, Rory Block, Maria Muldaur, Peter Tosh, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, and many others. Local folk musician JT Moring will open the show. Presented by the nonprofit San Diego Folk Heritage,