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Vocalist/songwriter/drummer Hal Ketchum grew up within the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY. He started drumming at age group 15 and quickly became a member of an R&B trio. At age group 17, Ketchum relocated to Florida and to Tx, where he quickly got included playing at an area dancehall and …

Born right into a noted lineage of American music artists and composers, this composer, musicologist, and educator, who have initiated the analysis now known as music understanding, was a self-described “music humanist” and among the ardently conservative college generally known as the “Boston classicists.” He frequently defended the “common man’s” …