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Remembering Art Rosenbaum

A clipping from the Indianapolis Star featuring a 17-year-old Art Rosenbaum holding a gold key award he won in the National Scholastic Art Contest.
A clipping from the Indianapolis Star featuring a 17-year-old Art Rosenbaum holding a gold key award he won in the National Scholastic Art Contest.

Celebrate the life and work of the Grammy-winning Indianapolis folklorist, musician, painter and academic Art Rosenbaum, who passed away last month at the age of 83. Rosenbaum came to prominence during the early 1960s with his field recordings that documented the "Indianapolis school" of blues music, and captured the sound of Avenue blues artists like Scrapper Blackwell, Yank Rachell, and more.