Seth Weeks
African American musician 1868 - 1953 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silas Seth Weeks (September 8, 1868 – December 1953) was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar.[1][2] Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin.[2] He is considered to be the first African American to play mandolin during its golden period[1] and was considered instrumental in bringing the mandolin to the prominent national standing that it had in the early 1900s.[2] He was the first American known to write a mandolin concerto (in 1900) and led a mandolin and guitar orchestra in Tacoma, Washington.[3]