PERFORMANCES
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Scotland tour 2005 and 2006
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Philadelphia Folk Festival 2003 and 2006
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New Jersey Folk Festival 2006
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Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem, PA
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Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA
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Mayfair Celebration, Allentown, PA
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- Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville Texas
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Gerde's Folk City, New York, NY
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Blue Bird Cafe, Nashville, Tenn
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"Bound For Glory" radio program. Ithaca, NY 2003
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Gene Shay's Folk Program, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA
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WXPN Sleep Hollow, Philadelphia, PA
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Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia, PA 1987
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- Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
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Instrumental music for Eastern Shore Artists website, Easton, MD
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Emcee for Forksville Folk Festival, Forksville, PA 2003,
2004
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Philadelphia Folk Society Odyssey Program 18 years
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Co-producer of the Mauch Chunk Folk Festival
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Selected for Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour Roster
2004
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Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Roster Music/Educator roster
10 years
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Deep Mine Publishing Company Owner 2004
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"Signed" to Mountain Laurel records, Reading, PA 1991
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Produced 5 self recordings
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Produced Jerry Haines "Into My Life" CD 2003
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Recorded music for BBC Wales documentary, "The Welsh in America"
2002
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Harrisburg Keystone State Songwriters Association winner
1988
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Original composition "The Ballad of Glen Onoko" inducted
into the Library of Congress, Washington, DC 1987 by Joe Hickerson
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Worldfolk magazine article, Los Vegas, Nevada 1999
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"The Ballad of Glen Onoko" used by Pennsylvania Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources in Lehigh Valley Legacy Magazine
CHILDREN PROGRAM
Very interactive program with audience singing, children
performing on mandolin and fiddle (preceded by the instruments origin),
the "origin of" and the teaching of a very simple clog-dancing step, as
well as some coal mining stories such as the invention of the first roller-coaster
form a coal train called the "Switchback" in Jim Thorpe, PA. |
OPENING ACT FOR
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Leo Kottke
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Jez Low and the Bad Pennies
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Norman Blake's Rising Fawn Ensemble
PROGRAM
1.Cultural Coal mining songs of Northeast Pennsylvania and other coal
mining areas preceded by their origin.
2."Ol Time Mountain, Folk and Coal Mining Songs"
A program containing the first program as well as original and traditional
American folk, bluegrass songs, original guitar and claw-hammer banjo compositions, as well as flat-footin',
(a form of clog-dancing) fiddling and singing simultaneously.
REVIEWS
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"...Socket To Me (CD) is an exceptional recording....."Stuck
in C" is an incredible instrumental, the kind that makes you say to your
friends, "Listen to this"!
Dirty Linen Magazine, Baltimore, MD
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"...aggressive and flat-picked guitar...warmly recommended"
Blue Grass Unlimited Magazine
- "......."my kind of folk singer".
Mike Miller, CD Reviewer for Philadelphia Folksong Society.
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"...a premiere practioner of traditional music...highly
dedicated...unique asset"."
Prof. Angus Kress Gillispie
Rutgers University
New Jersey Folk Festival
- "...outstanding...knowledgeable but so natural.."
Florence de Nagy
Program Director
Caroline County Library
Denton, Md
DISCOGRAPHY
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The Ballad of Glen Onoko 1986
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