Folk Music Center Musem
Folk music instruments, field trips, and concerts.
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The Folk Music Center Museum was opened in 1976 as a non-profit educational, cultural corporation.
from the Folk Music Center Museum concert series archive
Francisco Gonzalez - Una Tormenta De Amor
(September 24, 2011)
Specializing in the Arpa Jarocha, Gonzalez is known not only as a founding former-member of Los Lobos, but also for his time with Teatro Campesino, who travelled alongside César Chávez on behalf of United Farm Workers. In the full video recording, Gonzalez explains “Una Tormenta de Amor” was first collected by Charles Lummis on wax cylinder, as sung by Francisca De La Guerra Dibblee (California, Early 1900’s).
Yukiko Matsuyama
(2006)
Born in Osaka, Yukiko Matsuyama was classically trained in the koto from age 9. In 1993 Matsuyama moved to Los Angeles and began blending the traditional sound of the koto with western music. Yukiko’s playing has been featured on Japanese television, Grammy award winning recordings, and performances throughout the US and Japan.
Golden Ring #6 (April 12, 1966) - Doc Watson, Fred Price, and Clint Howard
In 1965, Folk Music Center founders Dorothy and Charles Chase opened the Golden Ring, a music cafe, on Harvard Ave with friends Peggy and Al Hulse and Jean and Will Marcotte. During its five year existence, the Golden Ring was one of the earliest venues for folk music in the Southern California area, bringing such greats to Claremont as the revered Gary Davis, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Doc Watson, Hedy West, John Fahey, The New Lost City Ramblers, and Guy and Candy Carawan.