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Dick Weissman, a Philadelphia native, he began learning piano at age seven and then took up the banjo during his teenage years. After graduating from college, he moved to New York and spent the next four years alternating between attending graduate school and becoming active in the folk music scene in Greenwich Village. Eventually he dropped out of Columbia, performed with Happy Traum, did a two-week gig at Folk City opening for Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, and with John Phillips and Scott McKenzie formed the folk-pop band, The Journeymen.
Three and a half years, three Capitol albums and several hundred concerts later, Weissman moved back to New York and became a studio musician, record producer and songwriter. In 1972 he moved to Colorado, got a music degree, wrote numerous instructional books for banjo and guitar, and performed widely. This evolved into a writing career, co-authoring the award-winning Folk Music Sourcebook and writing the best-selling The Music Business: Career Opportunities & Self Defense.
At the same time, Weissman taught at the late Colorado Women's College, later getting an MA from the University of Oklahoma, and working for NARAS as their National Educational Coordinator in Los Angeles in 1987. Moving back to Colorado, Dick became a tenured professor in the Music & Entertainment Industry program at the University of Colorado at Denver.
In 2002, he and his wife, Susan Planalp, moved to Oregon, and they now live in Portland, where Weissman continues to perform and record, as well as teach seminars and workshops. To date, he has written 15 published books on music and the music business, is featured on six instrumental CDs, and has written over fifty instructional folios for various music publishers.
