This live broadcast is in salute to our retiring president, Alan Chartock.

WAMC’s LIVE AT THE LINDA LIVE hosted by Peter Hughes broadcasts live on WAMC – Northeast Public Radio from our performing arts studio – “The Linda.” You can be in the live studio audience for the outstanding show we’re calling “IF YOU”RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT” with Happy Traum featuring Cindy Cashdollar, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason.

Happy Traum is a much-loved and admired folk singer, writer, teacher, recording artist and first-rate fingerstyle guitarist. He was a student of blues guitar legend Brownie McGhee, who was a major influence on his picking style. Happy has played in concerts, clubs and festivals throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan, both solo and with his late brother, Artie Traum, with whom he performed for more than 40 years.

Happy has also appeared and/or recorded with Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, John Sebastian, Larry Campbell, Eric Andersen, Allen Ginsberg and and many other major figures in the folk music world. As one of America’s best-known guitar instructors, he has taught at major guitar workshops throughout the country; is the author of more than a dozen best-selling guitar instruction books; and has produced more than 600 music lessons on DVDs, CDs and downloads for his internationally-renowned company, Homespun Music Instruction, which he co-founded with his wife, Jane, in 1967. His most recent CD, “Just For the Love of It,” received a four-star review from Rolling Stone