Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 2001 Central PA Fest of the Arts 2001 9th Annual Fest of Funny Songwriters 2001 Winner of Kerrville New Folk 2000 World Cafe Guest, August 2000 Sisters Folk Festival Finalist 2001
MP3's #1,2 and 3 in Folk category, Sept 28, 2000
Dr. Demento Show June 99 Lilith Fair Finalist 99 First Place 15th Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest First Place 16th Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Formal Showcase Artist, 1999
I ended up as a musician sheerly by accident.
I was teaching Elementary school in Northeast DC and my first class of very tall fifth grade students loved to sing. So I bought a guitar, mainly for survival purposes, spent the next summer learning chords and writing songs about American history. Come September, I was ready to accompany my students. The next group of fifth graders didn't like to sing. They sang anyway. I moved back to PA in 1993 to get my masters in Education at the University of Pennsylvania and spent two years teaching school in New Jersey. During this time, I started writing adult songs and hoping that bands and artists would cover them, but it was soon clear that the quickest way to get songs heard was to do them myself.
In 96, I moved to Korea to teach college English, spend some time living in a foreign country, practice the guitar intensively and save up money to make a CD. I crammed guitar by going to The National Guitar Workshop in New Milford CT, for three and five weeks at a time. (Now I'm a student again in the summers)
In June 99, I released The Shuffleboard Queens , The CD has been recieving airplay throughout the country, including WXPN, WMNF Tampa, WDIY Allentown, KGLP NM, WRFG Atlanta, WRFW WI, KRCL Salt Lake City, WLRN Miami, KDHX St. Louis, WPKN CT, KWVA Eugene, WFSS NC, KEOS TX..