Woodstock Legends Return to Maverick Concerts 7/10-17

Maverick Concerts announces the return of its popular and eclectic Saturday-night series, "Woodstock Legends." Woodstock has always been a place that great artists and performers call home, and the series has drawn enthusiastic crowds in past years. It is a celebration of, and by, some of the world-renowned musicians who make their homes in and around Woodstock.

There will be two Woodstock Legends concerts this season. Folksinger Happy Traum makes his Maverick Concerts debut on Saturday, July 10, at 6:00 p.m. Then, on Saturday, July 17, also at 6:00 p.m., bansuri flutist Steve Gorn, who has drawn sell-out audiences in past years, will be joined by Allyn Miner, sitar, and Pandit Samir Chatterjee, tabla, for an evening of Indian classical music.

About Happy Traum: Happy Traum began playing guitar and 5-string banjo as a teenager, and was an active participant of the legendary Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Happy moved to Woodstock with his wife and their three children in 1967, and Happy and his brother, the late Artie Traum, formed a duet that, according to Rolling Stone, "defined the Northeast folk music style." Their performances at the 1968 and 1969 Newport Folk Festivals helped to gain them an avid following. Since then he has performed extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan, both as a soloist and as a member of various groups.Happy's interest in traditional and contemporary music has brought him recognition as a performer, writer, editor, session musician, folklorist, teacher, and recording artist.

About Steve Gorn: Steeped in the essence of classical Indian tradition, Steve brings to this music a contemporary world music sensibility. His first steps on this path were taken as a young jazz musician studying composition at Penn State. Steve has brought his elegant bansuri sound to American pop music, influencing a wide range of musicians and recording with Paul Simon, Richie Havens, Paul Winter, Glen Velez, and many others. He has composed for film, television, dance and theatre, and performed in concerts and festivals throughout the world, drawing from classical Indian, jazz, and world music to create a distinctive Signature Sound.

About Allyn Miner: Supported by Fulbright and Rockefeller grants Allyn Miner lived and studied in Varanasi, India, for most of the eleven years between 1971 and 1982. In 1985 she began advanced training under Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and became his formal disciple in 1990. She performs in Indian classical music circles, chamber and world music music series, universities, and private venues in the U.S. and regularly returns to India for performances. She received a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and continues her research on Indian musicological texts and the history of Hindustani music. She is Senior Lecturer in Indian Music and Coordinator of Performing Arts events in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she has been since 1988.

About Samir Chatterjee: A virtuoso tabla player of India, Pandit Chatterjee is an A-rated artist of the national radio and television of India. He travels widely across the world throughout the year performing in numerous festivals as a soloist or with other outstanding musicians from both Indian and western musical traditions, including a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway in 2007.

Maverick Concerts is the oldest continuous summer chamber music festival in America and a winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Built by Maverick Art Colony founder Hervey White, Maverick Concert Hall first opened its doors to music lovers in 1916. The rustic hall is located at 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock, N.Y. 12498. With acoustics ideally suited to the intimacy of live chamber music performance, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

For additional details, including a schedule of concerts, ticket prices, and seating information, visit www.maverickconcerts.org <http://www.maverickconcerts.org> or call the Maverick's recorded message line at 845-679-8217.

Yamaha is the Official Piano of Maverick Concerts; the C7 grand piano on the Maverick stage appears through the generosity of Yamaha Artists Services.

Maverick Concerts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is supported by the Maverick Endowment Fund, Friends of Maverick, the towns of Woodstock and Hurley, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency), the National Endowment for the Arts, Ulster County Cultural Services and Promotion Fund administered by the Dutchess County Arts Council, the Dyson Foundation, local businesses, and other public and private foundations.