Paul Lolax is a Vermont-based musician and music instructor who has played guitar for more than 30 years. He was born in New York City and raised in Worchester, Massachusetts. His career as a performer began in 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts, where he played solo and backup guitar at various coffeehouses and restaurants. Broadside Magazine voted him “Best Instrumentalist of the Year” in 1968. During the early '70s he toured the national college circuit, did studio work in Baltimore, Maryland, played in social service setting such as Boston's Charles Street jail, and served as an artist-in-residence at independent schools in Massachusetts.
Paul has played with two groups and as a soloist in a numerous home, church, wedding, restaurant, and social service settings since relocating to Vermont several years ago. He also has appeared on the cable access program Vermont Folk Stage.
Paul has written for ‘Acoustic Guitar’ magazine, and the book ‘Transcriptions of Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb’ (Hansen House). He recorded ‘Selected Works of Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb’ (Titanic Records). He studied classical guitar with Aaron Shearer at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and has played bass guitar and the mandolin in addition to acoustic guitar.
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