Multi-talented folk musician who emerged from 1960s Greenwich Village scene

Artie Traum, who died on 20 July, 2008, aged 65, was a skilled folk musician who first came to prominence as part of the genre's revival in the 1960s.

He had nimble fingers and a robust voice that never wilted throughout his career and he demonstrated a style that evoked both the contemporary blues-influenced sounds of Greenwich Village and traditional Celtic song.

Later in his career he branched out into jazz and blues recordings. His talents also stretched to those of radio presenter, documentary-maker and guitar teacher, in particular becoming an authority on the DADGAD tuning favoured by many Irish folk guitarists.

He was the younger brother of Happy Traum with whom he began his folk career at Woodstock, but music had always been a part of his life growing up in New York. He was born on 13 April, 1943, and spent much of his teens watching blues, jazz and folk performers in the coffee shops and clubs of the city's beatnik hub.

At 20 he joined the True Endeavor Jug Band, the latest project of jazz impresario Samuel Charters. He began collaborating with many of the Village's luminaries, including Eric Kaz with whom he made a film soundtrack (Brian De Palma's Greetings, 1968, best known as Robert DeNiro's debut) and Allen Ginsberg for whom he played backing music.

He accompanied Happy to Woodstock in 1969 and they decided to begin performing as a duo, appearing again at the equally renowned Newport Folk Festival later that year. Together they recorded four critically hailed albums, released at sporadic intervals over the next 25 years, and Artie made a further 10 of his own. However, this only tells half the story as he played on several dozen more albums released by other artists.

In fact, Artie Traum's list of collaborations reads like a Who's Who of folk superstars: Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Richie Havens, Pete Seeger - the list goes on and there are very few names missing.

Other musical ventures included the Woodstock Mountains Revue, a loose musical collective that operated out of New York during the 1970s and '80s, with Traum acting as producer and performer to an evolving host of talent. In 1988 he and Happy began hosting the Bring It On Home radio show for WAMC in Albany, introducing performances that were later released on CD.

In 2002 his career took another turn when he began making documentaries about the waterways of America, a subject that was close to his heart due to his love of fishing. He also became a successful writer and presenter of instructional books and videos on the subject of folk musicianship.

He continued to work until his death from liver cancer. He was survived by his brother and his wife Beverly with whom he lived in Bearsville, New York.