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For a brief time I ran the coffeehouse series called "Saturday Night In Marblehead", taking over after Bob Franke ran the series for 10 glorious years. During my tenure there, I released my first album, "One Night In A Cheap Hotel". The Fast Folk Musical Magazine included the song "The Dollmaker's Secret" on their first Boston - artist album...Dean stevens used "Love Comes To The Simple Heart" as the title song for one of his albums...Susie Burke recorded "Angels" on her CD, "Lucky Stars"...and I got outside New England to perform a bit, playing venues like Fiddle and Bow Society in Winston-Salem and the St. Augustine Folk Festival in Florida.

In 1988 I moved to Norfolk, Virginia for a short time, where I worked at Ramblin' Conrad's Guitar Shop with Bob Zentz - "putting the folk in Norfolk", as they say. I lived in a small farmhouse on the Virginia-North Carolina line, and while there, began a love affair with traditional music which continues to this day.

Coming back to Boston in 1989, after a short stint as a tour guide in a museum and newspaper delivery person, a tip from the aforementioned Mr. Franke led to a job as afternoon drive time host on WUMB - FM. I held that spot for a number of years - and was "Announcer of the Year" in 1991! I also worked weekends at a commercial acoustic music radio station, WADN in Concord, Massachusetts.

Radio finally played itself in 1995 1995, and I began a computer career, while maintaining my musical adventures. In 2000, I released "Confession of Faith", containing many original and some traditional songs with a folk -gospel feel. Harkening back to my time in Virginia, I brought in some very fine bluegrass and acoustic players, notably Taylor and Jake Armerding, then of "Nothern Lights" to support the recording.

In 2001, I ventured to Cape Breton and Newfoundland, in a trip that dramatically altered my musical landscape. The trip was a transforming adventure, through Gros Morne's primal fjords and mountains, to L'Anse Aux Meadows, where we now know the Vikings stayed, however briefly, in about the year 1000. Their tales can be found in the collection of writings called "The Vinland Sagas." He learned about the Halifax Disaster on that trip as well, and the images and stories and history I learned on that trip became the focal point for my most recent CD, "The Northern Sagas", released in 2004.

I continue to write and perform from my home near Newburyport, Massachusetts, and produce the HALLFOLK PODCAST BROADCAST just about every three weeks.