Uh-oh, first solo act.

I bill myself as an "Entertainer in the Folk Tradition." What I mean by that is my focus is entertainment and my repertoire varies throughout several areas of "acoustic music". I play songs I have collected from local songwriters, from less well known national songwriters, and from the folk tradition. My set lists are usually heavily sprinkled with humorous songs.

I do gigs at a local coffee emporium where I am billed as a blues singer and my set list is all blues related.

I have a mellow baritone voice and I play 6 and 12 string guitar, both flat pick and fingerstyle. I am prone to do spoken introductions for all of my songs, but I have not yet achieved the folk ideal (to have the introduction be longer than the song).

I mostly take gigs as they come so I average 12 or 15 a year. I did go through a period where I was playing out 2 or 3 times a month. When I send my youngest off to college next year I plan to work towards that goal again. I have fantasies of making a CD in the next year or two as well.

Roger in Baltimore