Biography
Allen Singer played his first guitar chords during the 1960s folk revival in New York City. He flat and finger picks acoustic guitar and plays harmonica.
Allen Singer 's music and guitar picking is grounded in the songs of Woody Guthrie and his many musical children. American Root's and Blue's music play an important role in Allen's sets and performances.
Allen Singer plays guitar and sings folk, blues, country, traditional music, old time, topical, cowboy/western and bluegrass with a little jazz on the side.
Allen Singer's new CD, "Down the Road," is available at CD Baby and eFolk Music. The new CD"Down the Road," takes you on a journey through American 20th century folk music, country blues, traditional and early country music. Starting with Woody Guthrie and ending with Bob Dylan. Along the way you'll hear the music of Jimmy Rodgers,The Delmore Brothers, Sam NcGee, (Gov)Jimmy Davis, Johnny Cash and Harlan Howard. Listen to the songs and the music that set off the 1960's folk revival.
He leads the San Diego Folk Song Society, created in 1957 by Sam Hinton, a great American folk Singer, diatonic harmonica player and folklorist.
He's also co-vice chair of San Diego Folk Heritage, a concert producing organization in Southern California.
Writer/San Diego Troubadour(newspaper)
CONCERTS:
ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS FESTIVAL-2001/2005/2006/2007/2008
ADAMS AVENUE STREET FAIR-2001/2005
CHALIS UNITARIAN CHURCH ESCONDIDO-2006/2007/2008
FLAGSTAFF FOLK FESTIVAL , JUNE 27, 2009
SAN DIEGO FOLK HERITAGE CONCERTS/MUSICAL ODYSSEY SERIES-JUNE 10,2006, JULY 7, 2007, OCTOBER 13, 2007/MARCH 21, 2009
OLD POWAY PARK TRAIN SONG FESTIVAL OCTOBER 7,2006, OCTOBER 6, 2007/OCTOBER 4, 2008
BORDER'S BOOKS
SAM HINTON WING-DING-- JUNE 3,2006
SAM HINTON FOLK FESTIVAL-JUNE 9, 2007/JUNE 14, 2008/ MAY 9, 2009
OPENED FOR JUNI FISHER, MAY 9, 2009
"WOODY GUTHRIE'S SONG BOOK"/CLARKE HOUSE CONCERT---OPENED FOR JOEL RAFAEL-JUNE 9, 2007
WEIGHORST WESTERN HERITAGE DAY FESTIVAL- "COWBOY/WESTERN MUSIC" -JUNE 2, 2007/JUNE 8, 2008/JUNE 7, 2009
VAQUERO DAYS(Western HeritageFestival)-October 18, 2008
OPENED FOR CAROLYN HESTER/SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY-NOVEMBER 2, 2007
CONCERT-December 10, 2007 TO OPEN THE SAN DIEGO ACLU'S SHOWING OF "THE POWER OF SONG," A FILM ABOUT PETE SEEGER-KPBS STUDIO"A"/SDSU
Instrumentation
Allen Singer: Guitar and Harmonica
Discography
2003-IN TRADITION
2005-DOWN THE ROAD www.cdbaby.com/cd/allensinger
YOU CAN HEAR STREAMING TRACKS ON MY WEB PAGE, CD Baby, MYSPACE AND eFOLK MUSIC.
ELECTRIC PRESS KIT: AVAILABLE@WWW.SONICBIDS.COM/ALLENSINGER
Links
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