Peter Blecha

Peter Blecha is: a Staff Historian and Contributing Editor with HistoryLink.org; the Director of the Northwest Music Archives; and an award-winning author of ten books. A longtime member of the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild, and former longtime Senior Curator at Seattle’s EMP music museum (today’s MoPop), Blecha has been acknowledged over the decades as: “the premier expert in his chosen field of research” (Seattle Weekly, 1988); “Seattle’s best-known collector” (Scram Magazine, 2006); the “Indiana Jones of Rock ‘n’ Roll” (The Rocket, 2000); and a writer who “deserves a place in Northwest music history for his important role in preserving its history and promoting its legacy” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2005).