Harry Tuft on being inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame
Harry Tuft, slated to be inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame this Sunday, February 12, opened the Denver Folklore Center in 1962 and started promoting concerts a few years later, bringing in Joan Baez to Denver for the first time in 1964 and later bringing her to Red Rocks. 
In the early days of the Folklore Center (at its original location at 608 East 17th Avenue), the store was pretty much the only place of its kind between Chicago and the West Coast. Rock heavies such as Jim Morrison and Frank Zappa, bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Sonny Terry, bluegrass legends Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs, and folk-pop stars like the Mamas and Papas all stopped in the store when they were in town.
In advance of this weekend's ceremony, we spoke with Tuft about being inducted into the Colorado Hall of Fame, the history of the Denver Folklore Center, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in May, promoting concerts and his new album, Treasures Untold.
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