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Happy Traum Dies: Folk Music Mainstay Of Greenwich Village Scene Who Recorded With Bob Dylan Was 86


Happy Traum was one of the leaders of the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s

The brothers performed at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island in 1969, toured the world, and released five albums. Happy Traum recorded and performed with Dylan, Pete Seeger, Levon Helm of the Band and the reggae star Peter Tosh. He later joined the folk group the New World Singers, who cut the first recording of the Dylan classic “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which had been given the band by the songwriter to perform in local venues.

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