AcousticBlues.com offers blues information in memory of musician Archie Edwards.
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Archie Edward's Blues Heritage Foundation - Washington, DC's Home of the Piedmont Blues
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Excerpted from the website:
- Archie Edwards grew up in rural Franklin County, Virginia where he learned to play the guitar from his father. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he moved to Washington, DC where he eventually opened the Alpha Tonsorial Barbershop in 1959, which soon became a meeting place for local and national musicians.
- Today the Barbershop, which was the first meeting place of the Washington, DC Blues Society, still functions as a teaching facility and headquarters of the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization. Michael Baytop, Archie's friend and protege, is President.
