PROFICIENCIES

Instruments

• Voice, Guitar, Piano, Fiddle, Mandolin, Banjo, Bass, Recorder, and others.

Performance Repertoire

• Solo finger-style guitar. Solo fiddle.
• The music of families, children, and of people from a diversity of    cultures.
• Traditional music of the U.S.A., the British Isles, English and French Canada, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and various pieces from many nations.
• Popular music of the U.S.A. from 1784 to the present.
• Step Dance of the Southern Appalachians and Quebec

• My own compositions: Instrumental pieces, rounds, choral works, and songs.

Styles of Dance Taught

• Square Dances of the 19th century.
• Square Dances 1930 to 1950, and my own compositions in the style.
• New England Contra Dances, traditional and modern.
• British Barn Dances.
• Quebecois Traditional Dance.
• Quebecois Gigue and Appalachian Clog Dance.
• Old-Fashioned Couple Dance.

PERFORMANCES (a sampling)

Dance Camps

• Fiddle and Dance Camp at Ashokan: Northern, Southern, Western and Swing, and Teachers' Weeks, Olive Bridge, NY
• Pinewoods Camp: Folk, Family, Campers, English-American, and American Weeks, Plymouth, MA
• BACDSS Family Week, Gualala, CA
• Camp Wannadance, Seattle, WA
• Country Dance College, Atlanta, GA
• Raincoast Rucus, Vancouver, BC
• Moosejaw Dance Weekend, MI
• Michigan Fall Dance Weekend, M
• Callers Intensive Workshop, Guest Instructor on Teaching and Musicality. Coppenhagen, Denmark

Festivals (U.S.A.)

• The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Schwenksville, PA
• The Brandywine Folk Festival, Brandywine, PA
• The Hudson River Revival, NY
• The Eisteddfod, MA
• The Middletown Folk Festival , Red Bank NJ

Festivals (International)

• Mariposa Folk Festival, Toronto, Canada
• The Shetland Folk Festival, Shetland Islands, Great Britain
• International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, Wales, Great Britain
• Rzeszow international Festival, Poland