A nationally renowned luthier and founder of the long-running Blue Skies Music Festival, Oskar Graf is being remembered by friends for his generous and welcoming spirit. Article content

Graf, 81, died at his home in Clarendon, north of Sharbot Lake, in late August. His Blue Skies Music Festival family will celebrate his life on Saturday, and another celebration is being planned in Westport in November. Article content Article content

Oskar Graf was born in a small town in southern Germany during a 1944 air raid. After the war, his family relocated to Berlin.

“My father grew up in West Germany, did an apprenticeship in fine cabinetry, and then went to design school for interior architecture and furniture design,” son Tony Graf said.

He would meet his wife, Shoshannah (who went by Su

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