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Individual actors & performers
Biography: arts & entertainment
Peters glimpses of family life in Newport and Bar Harbor are, in fact, an ethnography of top drawer New England society. The notion of the Johnson père teaching his son that then US President Franklin Roosevelt was a traitor to our class seems incredible today. Cleveland Amorys The Proper Bostonians was filled with similar tales of the same sorts of people, but in a more detached way.
Peter Johnson is a singer, concert promoter, record producer, writer, traveler, prankster, husband, father, and a fixture of the Cambridge music scene for the last fifty years. He is a member of the family that started, and still manages, Fidelity Investments. As the founder of Living Folk Records and Concerts, he introduced a number of traditional musicians from Ireland and the British Isles to North American audiences, thereby shaping the trajectory of this important music genre as it gained a larger place in world music.