busterbill wrote:
The fellow who passed was Peter Fraterdeus. ... I do believe he dropped in other places like The Cities and Duluth now and again. He was as happy in a folk or old time session as he was in an Irish session.
I found pics of him, and I don't recognize him from the Twin Cities Trad sessions, but that's not saying much; I can't have caught it all. If he's been here, I'm sure that someone knew and remembers him. I remember one particularly big ITM house party where the Old Time contingent had commandeered the kitchen, and I remember a lot of the players in that bunch looked a lot like him - so who knows!
Judging from what I can dredge up about him, his was a very full and creatively productive life.