Hugh Blumenfeld
Mon, Nov 11
|Nightingale's Acoustic Cafe
“…words & music full of poetry & passion” – Boston Globe


Time & Location
Nov 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Nightingale's Acoustic Cafe, 68 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT 06371, USA
About the event
“A long, long, time ago,” Hugh Blumenfeld left the pre-med track to study poetry and poetics. At the time, he saw it as a choice between treating the body or treating the soul. He studied and taught literature and creative writing for ten years – a gypsy scholar going from university to university.
Along the way, Hugh started writing songs. He eventually left academia to become a full-time singer-songwriter, touring around the U.S. and in Europe for the next decade. He lived in NYC through most of the 80’s where he got involved with the Fast Folk scene in Greenwich Village. During that time, Hugh worked with many amazing artists, including producer/collaborators David Seitz and Mark Dann. Together, they made five albums, the first four released on Prime-CD and the last released on Waterbug. He even made a studio recording in Europe, put out by Paul Rostetter on the Swiss folk-music label…