Selma Kaplan:
CLASS OF 1969
Monroe High SchoolClass of 1969
Rochester, NY
Selma's Story
By way of catch-up....I finally got to Woodstock, only 30 years too late. Getting here was a winding road -- I seem to move 100 miles east every 10 years or so. After college at Harpur, I stayed in Binghamton for a few years, working, finishing incompletes, and making some musical connections, having gone back to playing piano after many years in piano-student-recovery.
Next home base was the Albany area where, throughout the '80s, I worked part-time in a folk music record and book mail order business and played with a band called "Rude Girls" which, despite its ska-sounding name, did what's now being affectionately referred to as "Americana" music. Who knew?! Back then we didn't know what the hell to call i...Expand for more
t. We traveled a lot, made a few albums (CDs having not yet been invented), won an "Indie" (the low-rent Grammy of independent record labels -- that and a buck and you can ride the bus somewhere) and actually survived into the era of the CD before we realized we liked playing music a lot but we liked getting paychecks more. Plus, we were closing in on Middle Age and schlepping around the country was getting old.
So I got a job at the local public radio station which has kept me busy for the past 20 + years and the band became a part-time gig. I still play music when I can and am Vice President here at WAMC, a mostly behind-the-scenes position, which is how I like it.
Long term relationship, no kids, 2 cats.
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