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Iconic Coffeehouse Nurtured America's Folk Musicians Over Half a Century


Iconic Coffeehouse Nurtured America's Folk Musicians Over Half a Century
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Saratoga Springs, in upstate New York, is far from America's musical hot spots of Nashville, Austin, Los Angeles and even New York City. But over the past five decades, a small coffeehouse there has hosted thousands of folk music and other acoustic concerts and helped many of America’s best-loved artists launch their careers. VOA’s June Soh takes us to Caffè Lena, which calls itself the oldest continuously running folk coffeehouse in the U.S. Carol Pearson narrates.

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