Folk Music Center Offers Lessons in Perseverance, Importance of Community

The Folk Music Center is a three-part operation, including a museum, music store, and instructional center. It opened its doors in the back room of a Claremont, California real estate office in 1958 with just a small inventory of records, books, strings, and instruments donning its shelves. It now serves as a thriving hub to the folk music scene of past and present, and this summer, NAMM’s Resource Center team visited The Folk Music Center to document its history and impact on its community.