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Folksinger and storyteller Adam Miller is renowned for his extensive repertoire of traditional and contemporary folksongs. His performances at folk festivals, libraries, museums, and schools have won him fans of all ages all along the west coast. Miller is a masterful entertainer who never fails to get his audience singing along, he is also one of the most respected autoharp players in North America. His latest recording "Along Came a Giant - Traditional American Folk Songs for Young Folks" is both educational and entertaining, featuring sing-along folk songs arranged with traditional American acoustic instruments, as well as highly informative and detailed liner notes about the history of each song. Miller is an award-winning folksinger and virtuoso autoharpist. He has been a featured performer at the Claremont Folk Festival, the California Traditional Music Society's Summer Solstice Festival, the Berkeley Free Folk Festival, The Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, the Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, San Diego's Adams Avenue Roots Festival, the California Autoharp Gathering, the Willamette Valley Autoharp Gathering, and the Mount Laurel Autoharp Gathering. He is also a familiar face to tens of thousands of youngsters who have attended his acclaimed "Singing Through History" folk music programs at schools and libraries. These programs aid in the development of cultural and historical literacy, emphasizing the importance of history as a story well told. A native of Northern California, he grew up a few blocks from historic Cannery Row on the Monterey Bay. As a child he listened to the recordings of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Oscar Brand, Cisco Houston, Marias and Miranda, and the Weavers. At the age of 11 his parents took him hear folksinger Sam Hinton at the Grange Hall in Big Sur. He credits Hinton as his mentor and his greatest inspiration. Miller began playing finger-style acoustic guitar at the age of seventeen. He has been playing the autoharp since 1994. He is a nationally recognized presenter of folklore and folk music programs and regularly performs at schools, libraries and museums. Miller plays both diatonic and chromatic autoharps manufactured by Fladmark Woodworks, Orthey Instruments and the Oscar Schmidt Company. He uses only his fingernails for picks. He has recorded two CDs of folksongs, The Orphan Train and Other Reminiscences and Wild Birds. Pianist and composer George Winston has called him, "...one of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times." Check out the artist's website: http://www.folksinging.org Track List: 1. When I Was a Little Boy 2. Who Were the Witches? 3. Twenty Froggies 4. I'm Not Scared 5. Old Bill Pickett 6. The Three Foolish Piglets 7. Talking Nautical 8. The Brandy Tree 9. Froggie Went a-Courtin' 10. Simple Gifts 11. Hi Ho Jerum 12. Little Old Woman All Skin and Bones 13. To the Gray Whale Ranch 14. The Coast of High Barbary 15. A Horse Named Bill 16. I Had a Little Nut Tree 17. The Farmer and the Crow 18. Michael Finnegan 19. Old Bangum 20. the Frog Song 21. When the Rain Comes Down 22. Wynken, Blinken and Nod Suggested CDs:Other Genres: |