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...Rolf Cahn has arrived in Cambridge on his yearly pilgrimage reviving old arguments about all aspects of his music. Is he a good blues singer? is he a competent flamenco guitarist? is his guitar playing too mechanical...
...Cahn's music is just half the story of Rolf Cahn the person. He was in Berkeley when Odetta was learning to play the guitar; he was in Los Angeles and Chicago when the folk music movements there were in their infancy; and he has influenced more than any other single person the music being played and sung in the coffee houses of Boston and Cambridge...
After a stab at prizefighting and working in the Packard foundry in Detroit, Cahn began his life as a musician among the founders of the American folk music movement--men like Pete Seeger and Millard Lampell. Since the late 1940's he has travelled extensively throughout the United States and to Spain and the Carribean, collecting, teaching, and performing. The Carribbean trip was on a grant from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he met his former wife, blues singer Barbara Dane...
Barbara Dane is one of the many important folk singers whose music bears the stamp of an encounter with Rolf Cahn. Jackie Washington, Debbie Green, Odetta, Jim Kweskin, Tom Rush, Molly Scott and countless others both famous and obscure have also been influenced directly by Cahn and his music...
Nightly starting Friday: Rolf Cahn at Cafe Yana...