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Born in New York City, my  ancestral roots lie in Lancaster, Scranton, and Berks County.  Coming of age in the late sixties, my musical influences ranged from the concerts in Central Park to coffeehouses in Greenwich Village to rock concerts at the Fillmore East. And, of course, Woodstock. I was there. 

So the music that formed me was Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, the Band, the Byrds, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills and Nash, music that I still love to this day. 

I picked up my sister’s old guitar at 16 and taught myself, and it wasn’t long before I was attempting to write my own material. I wrote my first two songs at 17. I formed a folk band with four classmates in college, and led worship music for many years in my church. 

Just a few years ago, I began to seriously write music again, songs that embody a unique, melodic sound combining fingerstyle and flatpicking methods. Now I have eight originals. 

I have an unusually wide-ranging repertoire with songs “fresh off the radio” all the way back to turn of the last century, including folk, standards, pop, Broadway, and movie themes and perorm regularly in Midstate-area coffeehouses.