"The Folk Music Center Museum was opened in 1976 as a non-profit educational, cultural corporation. The first museum collection was a Stauffer guitar and a Stauffer Theorbo, both dating back to the 1880's, that Charles and Dorothy found in a second hand store for five dollars. The Museum now contains rare and antique musical instruments and artifacts of culture from around the world.
Recently, Dorothy and Charles' daughter, Ellen Chase-Verdries began managing the store. Her son, Ben Harper purchased the store from his grandparents in order to keep the Folk Music Center in the family and alive for the generations to come." (http://www.myspace.com/claremontfolkfestival)
On my way from San Francisco to Los Angeles I decided to stop for a while in Claremont just to spend a moment in the folk music center. For all folk music fans, there is a festival taking place every year the first week-end of May.
F.M.C is also known to be the place where Ben Harper started learning guitar.
More information at www.folkmusiccenter.com
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