Elijah Wald

Elijah Wald started playing guitar in the 1960s after seeing his first Pete Seeger concert at age seven. At seventeen, he went to New York to study with Dave Van Ronk, then spent most of the next dozen years hitchhiking and performing all over North America and Europe, as well as much of Asia and Africa, including several months studying with the Congolese guitar masters Jean-Bosco Mwenda and Edouard Masengo in eastern Zaire and lecturing for the United States Information …