Harp master Jay Summerour will join acoustic blues guitarist Michel Baytop at the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc.'s "Tribute to America's Veterans" concert, on Sunday, November 9, 2008, at the Round House Theatre, in Silver Spring.
Harmonica player Jay Summerour has been involved with music for well over 40 years. Beginning his musical education on the trumpet at age 7, Summerour learned the harmonica from his grandfather Smack Martin. Largely self-taught, Summerour picked up bits and pieces from “folks he ran into”—folks like Sonny Terry, James Cotton and Magic Dick.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Summerour took the traditional harmonica into the popular arena, joining the Starland Vocal Band and playing with Nils Lofgren and his band Grin. Four of the Starland Vocal Band’s records went gold during Summerour’s tenure.
--excerpt from The American Folklife Center and the Public Service Collections Directorate at the Library of Congress
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