Seth Weeks

Silas Seth Weeks (September 8, 1868 – December 1953) was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar.

[2] He toured America in "circuits" performing and teaching, including in public schools in Chicago, Boston, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco.

He settled temporarily in Europe, living first in London until World War I, when he returned with his family to New York and played in jazz bands.

[1] He was an admirer of the performances of America's other mandolinists of his day, Samuel Siegel, W. Eugene Page, Valentine Abt, J. W. Marler, W. L. Barney (a Chicago musician in the 1890s through the 1920s), and Fred Lewis.

[3] His recordings are mostly unknown or lost today and are available on compact disk only as part of box set about Black-people who made music in Europe.