Musicologist Jerry Silverman is one of America's outstanding folksingers and guitar teachers. He has published numerous folksong collections, anthologies, and method books for guitar, banjo, and fiddle, including The Baseball Songbook, The Guitarist's Guide and Almanac, Jerry Silverman's Folksong Encyclopedia, Ballads and Songs of the Civil War, and Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust. He has taught hundreds of people, young and old, the joys of making music on the guitar, and has performed in folksong concerts at schools, universities, and concert halls in the United States and abroad. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
