Harold Jacobs Blues & country harmonica, guitar and
home-made 5 string banjo, (usually two at a time) once ran into Pete Seeger on
the NYC subway and hasn't been the same since. Plays catch-up harp on the
razor's edge: says it gives him a rush.
Harold Jacobs hails from Pelham Parkway in the Bronx where he learned about
music while chuggin Ballentine. Instead of studying for the Regents he built a
5 string banjo which he still plays today while blowin harp through a brace
which sometimes also holds a sandwich.
Harold was a member of a New York folk group called the Meanders, which was
popular at Church venues (not too popular at synagogues though), and also at
gigs at Gerdie's Folk Village.He also gigged at a number of Village coffee
houses in the 60's. He studied the "Art of Folk Songs" with the renowned
Bernice Kamsler of the "New School for Social Research."
In Israel now for 30 years he is an international export marketing
professional and is an occasional sideman or guest performer at Jacob's Ladder
(no relation), The Tel Aviv folk Club, The Tzora Folk Club, and Trish's Folk
Club in Zichron Ya'akov.
He was a driving force in the country rock band "Country Fire" which went
out in a blaze of super amplified sound at the Tel Aviv Holiday Inn Pub which
almost demolished the place. He's ready to jam at the drop of a riff.
