Info: Jonathan Pearthree

Subject: Jonathan Pearthree
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Feb 05 - 09:46 PM

Here goes the long-shot question of the year:
About 1972, this guy performed at a little coffeehouse in Chicago.(The Broken Wall). He appeared under the name Jonathan Pearthree. I was told he was a well known figure on at least the local folk scene, who wouldn't appear under his real name because we couldn't pay scale;
I never got around to asking the staff member who booked him who he really was. Is there any soul left alive who might actually have a clue?

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 05 - 02:19 PM

I'll betcha Art Thieme might know.

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 15 - 09:39 AM

There was a Jonathan Pearthree who played and was active for several years in the mid-1960's in the Baltimore, MD folk scene. I used to work at the Crack of Dawn Coffee House and he was one of our regular performers. Try contacting the Baltimore Folk Music society. Someone there might know something. Also, Bob Cadwalader, who owned the coffee house at the time was still in the Maryland area. A professional pilot, I last heard of him managing a small airport in, I think, Howard County, MD.

Hope this helps. Seems like we are talking about the same person.

Vic Morawski

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 15 - 10:30 PM

Jonathan moved to Los Angeles around 1985 or so... we have lost touch with him since then. Stuart and Carolyn Gordon may know more about his current ventures, they also live in Los Angels area.

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: Megan L
Date: 08 Nov 15 - 02:16 AM

thanks guest will point frogprince towards this thread again

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Nov 15 - 12:17 AM

I'm tryin' to believe that someone still came across this: ) Thanks, Vic, Guest, and Megan. It all comes out rather odd. As I mentioned, I was told the gent was performing under an assumed name. But I took it that he was a known reputable performer who would not have been apt to snitch someone's real name. I'm remembering a solidly built figure with a very full light or white mustache and a cowboy hat.

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 16 - 05:54 PM

Jonathan grew up in a section of Baltimore called Bolton Hill, as did I, in the early to mid sixties. In the summer of1965 I started to teach myself guitar. Jonathan kindly took me under his wing and showed me things he knew, which helped me immeasurably in my early foray. He was a colorful figure on the local folk scene for awhile.

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Nov 16 - 05:02 PM

I dated him a few times in the mid 60's, fresh outta high school and also working at the Crack of Dawn (and the several incarnations that preceded it in that basement). Sam Bass & I worked the kitchen on weekend nights and I waitressed at times. Yes, stocky build, solid looking, blond. He had a beautiful inlay on his guitar - a pear tree with three pears. Cowboy boots seem right.

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: GUEST,Michael Roper
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 11:09 AM

I worked with him in the 1980's at Rose Records. We wrote music for Chicago theater productions then. Went west to work on some film projects and is listed in the IMDB.

Subject: RE: Jonathan Pearthree
From: GUEST,Jean Hess Keller
Date: 26 Jul 18 - 11:08 PM

A very talented and charismatic person. We knew him and his family in Baltimore in the 1950's and 60's. He is the brother of actress Pippa Pearthree. When I attended Maryland Institute in 1964 he was playing guitar downtown and I recall his byline at the time was something like "Old Magic Fingers is Back!" Surely he is still performing.