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Words: Pete Mason
In 1991, Jon Trafton and Reid Genauer met at the University of Vermont and began playing guitar together. They soon formed Strangefolk, a staple of the early 1990’s East Coast jamband scene and a band that would go on to tour the country, regularly performing at festivals and even founding a fest of their own.
[Strangefolk Family Photo, Circa 1996 – via Jon Trafton]
Their initial incarnation fractured in 2000 as Genauer left and the band continued without him. Now with the twentieth anniversary of the band upon us we look back at their career with reflections from the band members past and present.
Strangefolk started out in Burlington, Vt. in 1991 when Reid Genauer and Jon Trafton met as freshman while Jon was playing guitar on the school’s campus. Trafton was playing with the band Wide Whale and invited Reid to join them in some jam sessions. They quickly formed a musical bond and decided to form a band together. Their first practice as a duo was in the basement of Slade Hall at UVM in the fall of 1991.
Genauer: The first two songs Jon and I collaborated on were Two Boys and Things That Fly. I had written Two Boys and Jon spruced it up musically and Jon had written the music to Things That Fly and I added lyrics. I recall weeks later we performed those two songs at an open mic night and blew the doors off the place or at least we felt like we did. Whether it was actual or perceived is almost irrelevant, the point is that it was after that open mic, the performance of those two songs and the crowd response, that we knew we were on to something good. In my mind that was the start of Strangefolk that night – that moment.
Trafton: When I ended up with a double and no roommate, it became our first space to play together.
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