My earliest memories are of a radio station in New Brunswick. CHSJ St. John. They played old time music, fiddling, piano and some sort of sticks for rhythm. The program was called Suppertime Frolic. No one was allowed to speak while Don Messer and his Islanders were on!

Later on, a neighbor had a record player and a collection of all kinds of folkie type music such as, The Weavers, Buryl Ives, Wilf Carter and I was hooked.
We finally got a real radio and one of the stations we got was WWVA in Wheeling West Virginia.
In Grammar school I was exposed to classical music, and I fell for that too. Rossini, Beethoven etc.

I got a cheap guitar for my 16th Christmas, and that has taken me down a very interesting road. In 1959 I met Gordon Bok and we became very close friends. That opened another door, and because of him I met Pete Seeger and the Patons at Folk Legacy. One of the highlights of my life was the day Gordon asked if I would lie to make a record on that label!

Since then I've had the pleasure of meeting Tom Paxton, Rambling Jack and Utah Phillips.In 2000 I started having problems with my voice which led to surgery and the last paying gig I did was with Utah in California in April of 2006.
I hardly ever touch the guitar anymore, but I'm in therapy for the voice, so Jacqui won't let me give it away. (Sorry Bernie)

Not sure where my interest in singing comes from, my Mother sang a bit my Father never sang, but he did whistle dirty songs. There was never an instrument in the house until my Brother and I got those guitars for Christmas.