Connie Convers left New York in the early 1960s. She moved to Ann Arbor, where her brother and sister-in-law were academics. Connie got a job at the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution. In August of 1974, she told her friends and family that she was leaving,. And then she was gone.
The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there was Connie Converse and then she disappeared.
In his new book “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse” Howard Fishman gives us the complete tale. We meet up with Howard and learn why this incredible musician just couldn’t catch a break in 1950s New York City, and why he is devoted to her life and art.
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