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Jay Smar - www.jaysmar.com
PERFORMANCES
Scotland tour 2003 and 2006
Philadelphia Folk Festival 2003 and
2006
New Jersey Folk Festival 2006
Chesapeake Film Festival, Avalon
Theatre, Easton, MD
Godfrey Daniels, Bethlehem, PA
Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA
Mayfair Celebration, Allentown, PA
Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville
Texas
Gerde's Folk City, New York, NY
Blue Bird Cafe, Nashville, Tenn
"Bound For Glory" radio program.
Ithaca, NY 2003
Gene Shay's Folk Program, WHYY,
Philadelphia, PA
WXPN Sleep Hollow, Philadelphia,
PA
Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia, PA
1987
Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2011 Listed on Pennsylvania Humanities Council State Speaker
2009 - Pennsylvania House of
Representatives Recognition Award
2009 - Accepted to Martin Guitar
Artist Program
Instrumental music for Eastern Shore
Artists website, Easton, MD
Emcee for Forksville Folk Festival,
Forksville, PA 2003, 2004
Philadelphia Folk Society Odyssey
Program 18 years
Co-producer of the Mauch Chunk
Folk Festival
Selected for Pennsylvania Performing
Arts on Tour Roster 2004
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Roster Music/Educator roster 10
years
OPENING ACT FOR
Leo Kottke
Jez Low and the Bad Pennies
Norman Blake's Rising Fawn
Ensemble
Norman and Nancy Blake
Hot Rize
Tom Paxton
John Hammond
Loudon Wainright III
Tony Trischka
Roy Bookbinder
Michael Cooney
John Herald
Newgrass Revival
BMI Writer 13 years
Deep Mine Publishing Company
Owner 2004
"Signed" to Mountain Laurel records,
Reading, PA 1991
Produced 5 self recordings
Produced Jerry Haines "Into My
Life" CD 2003
Recorded music for BBC Wales
documentary, "The Welsh in
America" 2002
Harrisburg Keystone State
Songwriters Association winner 1988
Original composition "The Ballad of
Glen Onoko" inducted into the
Library of Congress, Washington,
DC 1987 by Joe Hickerson
Worldfolk magazine article, Los
Vegas, Nevada 1999
"The Ballad of Glen Onoko" used by
Pennsylvania Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources
in Lehigh Valley Legacy Magazine
PROGRAMS
These programs have been sanctioned by the
Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour
Organization (www.PennPAT.org)
Program 1:
All coal mining songs of Northeast
Pennsylvania and other coal mining areas
preceded by their origin.
Program 2:
"Ol Time Mountain, Folk and Coal Mining
Songs"
(A program containing the first program as
well as original and traditional American
folk, bluegrass songs, original guitar and
claw-hammer banjo guitar, original and
cover instrumentals as well as flat-footin', (a
form of clog-dancing) fiddling and singing
simultaneously.)
REVIEWS
Dirty Linen Magazine, Baltimore, MD
"...Socket To Me (CD) is an exceptional recording....."Stuck in C" is an incredible instrumental, the kind
that makes you say to your friends, "Listen to this"!
Blue Grass Unlimited Magazine
"...aggressive and flat-picked guitar"
Mike Miller, CD Reviewer for Philadelphia Folksong Society
"...my kind of folk singer"
Prof. Angus Kress Gillispie (Rutgers University, New Jersey Folk Festival)
"...a premiere practioner of traditional music...highly dedicated...unique asset".
Florence de Nagy, Program Director | Caroline County Library | Denton, Md
"...outstanding...knowledgeable but so natural.."
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