Jim Kweskin is probably best known as a singer and bandleader. He also created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Blind Boy Fuller to the more complex chords of pop and jazz.

Now in his 83rd year, Happy continues to perform, record, conduct guitar workshops and classes, and produce new lessons for Homespun. He is one of Woodstock, NY’s most revered local musicians.