Born in Philadelphia in 1945 and raised in Tarrytown, New York, singer-songwriter David Bromberg listened to rock n’ roll as a teenager before discovering Pete Seeger, the Weavers and Reverend Gary Davis. He studied
guitar at age thirteen and eventually enrolled in Columbia University as a musicology major. He became part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the mid-’60s and played the Village “basket houses” for tips, the occasional paying gig, and employment as a backing musician for Tom Paxton, Jerry Jeff Walker and Rosalie Sorrels, among others. He’s currently touring behind Only Slightly Mad, an album that features blues, bluegrass, gospel, folk, Irish fiddle tunes and pop. (Niesel)