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Jun 3, 2021 · Folk Music, Folk Music Center, Guitars, Music Retail, California, Pete Seeger, Women in the Music Industry, Pandemic of 2020, Interview Performance. Ellen Harper Verdries grew up in a music store! Her parents, Dorothy and Charles Chase, formed their first store in Massachusetts before moving to Southern California in 1958.
Jul 31, 2018 · It’s about her first marriage, in 1969, to Leonard Harper, who was a college administrator in Claremont. Their union produced three boys: Ben, Joel and Peter. They divorced in 1976; he is since...
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His late father, Leonard Harper, was of African-American ancestry, and his mother, Ellen Harper Verdries (née Chase), is Jewish. His maternal great-grandmother was a Russian-Lithuanian Jew. His parents divorced when he was five years old, and he grew up with his mother's family. Harper has two brothers, Joel and Peter Harper.
Today, Dorothy and Charles’ daughter, Ellen Chase-Verdries manages the store. Her son, Ben Harper purchased the store from his grandparents in order to keep the Folk Music Center in the family and alive for the generations to come.
- 220 Yale Avenue Claremont, CA, 91711 United States
- info@folkmusiccenter.com
- (909) 624-2928
Feb 1, 2021 · GROSS: You met your first husband, Leonard Harper, at a party in which there were some musicians jamming and Leonard was playing conga. And you write, he was the rare Black person among the...
Mar 6, 2021 · Always a Song also gets into the slow-motion disintegration of Ms. Harper’s 1969 marriage to the father of her three sons, Leonard Harper. (She and second husband Jan Verdries have been married since 1984). “I think I realized the information doesn’t have to be just family secrets,” she said.
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