What neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City, did Harry Peter Traum become a musical scene stalwart in the 1960s of?
Happy Traum Happy Traum (born Harry Peter Traum, May 9, 1938, The Bronx, New York City) is an American folk musician who started playing music in the 1950s and became a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. For several years, he studied blues guitar with Brownie McGhee, who was a big influence on his guitar style. Happy is most famously known as one half of Happy and Artie Traum, a duo he began with his brother. They released several albums, including "Happy and Artie Traum" (1969, Capitol), "Double Back" (1971, Capitol), and "Hard Times In The Country" (1975, Rounder). He has continued as a solo artist and as founder of Homespun Music Instruction.
The Sound Factory Bar The Sound Factory Bar was a nightclub at 530 West 27th Street in New York City's Manhattan. The club was originally called "Private Eyes" which was a very popular nightspot in the late 1980s and the early 1990s that for its time had an unusually advanced state of the art video and sound system. Private Eyes catered to a variety of growing underground music scenes in it heyday.