Some years ago, Woodstock guitarist and vocalist Happy Traum was traveling in Europe — it may have been Ireland — when he came upon a busker strumming chords for cash. Traum was impressed with ...

Happy Traum, a stalwart of the Greenwich Village and Woodstock folk scenes and longtime friend and collaborator of Bob Dylan, died on Wednesday at age 86.

Traum began recording jazz albums in the 1990s. Happy Traum said his brother’s musical sensibility, though grounded in the folk tradition, encompassed styles from jug band to contemporary jazz.

American folk music legend Happy Traum has died. He was 86. The New York Times reported that his wife, Jane, said he had been battling pancreatic cancer and died after undergoing surgery for that.

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Phoenicia music journalist Holly George-Warren described Happy Traum as “truly an American treasure” who played “such an important role in the early days of American folk ...

Happy Traum, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s who recorded with Bob Dylan, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 86. His wife, Jane Traum, said he died of pancreatic ...

Artie Traum, 65, a veteran songwriter and guitarist who came out of the seminal Greenwich Village folk music scene of the '60s, died Sunday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y., of cancer that had ...

Happy and Artie Traum were managed by the late Albert Grossman, who also managed Bob Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin and Peter, Paul and Mary, so the brothers were keeping pretty heady company in ...

Happy Traum was a fantastically talented guitarist and singer, who stood out in a mix of talented guitarists and musicians in Woodstock. Now he has been taken from us.

Artie Traum, who died at home Sunday at 65, was a guitarist who had a long career in folk and later jazz from his home base in Woodstock, N.Y.

Artie Traum, a veteran folk songwriter and guitarist who came out of the famous Greenwich Village music scene of the ’60s, is dead. He was 65. Jeff Heiman, Traum’s manager, said he died Sunday at his ...