Kurt Vonnegut fan Tim Kirkner is a seasoned performing songwriter who has opened for Lucy Kaplansky, is a Brewers Alley Monday Songwriters Series and Frederick Coffee Co Sunday Songwriters alumni, and a newcomer to the world of improv.  Tim and Todd talk about songwriting, performing, guitars and how music fits into his life.

Gettysburg PA performing songwriter Thomas Roue saves lives as an EMT-Paramedic during the day and performs original acoustic music as both a solo artist and a band frontman evenings and weekends.  He discusses how he started his journey learning guitar to becoming a songwriter while also learning to become an emergency EMT-Paramedic.

Frederick (MD) based electric guitarist & guitar instructor Sam Biskin grew up listening to his Mom's favorite music (Opera, Frank Sinatra, etc) and his Dad's Jazz & Boogie-Woogie records.  His first guitar teacher taught classical, his second jazz.  He still owns his first nylon string guitar.  Now known more for electric guitar, one of his favorite guitars is his cherry red Guild D35.  An active member of a rock band and a country band, he is a popular guitar instructor. He is one of the founding members of the 'House Band' at the Frederick Coffee Co open mic series.

Long Island (NY) born Robert Pereira was given a guitar by his father at the age of six.  Church folk mass during high school gave way to joining bands as a bass player and background vocalist. Life moved him to the mid-Atlantic region where he finally found his singing voice.

Former touring singer-songwriter Damion Wolfe has released a new EP titled 'Shiny Mad', departing from traditional singer-songwriter guitar-based music to digital composing.  He talks about the journey from Puff The Magic Dragon sung by his hippie parents, to touring singer-songwriter, to composing music for commercial use, to recording 'Shiny Mad' at his D.C. apartment studio.

A drummer since 1961, Ron Goad is a friend to many.  Not only is he a talented percussionist/drummer, he loves helping other musicians improve professionally.  He organizes music shows for several non-profit music organizations and is a board member for SAW (Songwriters Association of Washington).  A retired English teacher, he fills his home in Northern Virginia with drums (all shapes & sizes), guitars and traveling musicians.

Craig Cummings is called 'The Voice' by music promoter Rod Deacey, sometimes as 'The Beach Cowboy'.  Whatever you call him, he writes, records and performs really catchy songs.  He talks about his songwriting and how he gets radio play.

Maryland based professional guitarist Ben Sherman enjoys playing guitar as much now as he did as a kid, whether it's classical guitar, steel-string acoustic or electric.  Performing or teaching guitar, his studies of music theory for his Bachelor's Classical Music Degree opened up his musical world.  He discusses teaching, performing and his guitars & gear. 

Western Maryland guitar player Ed Barney is a solo artist, a sought after sideman and an alumni of Up With People.  From guitar lessons on a Harmony nylon string at the age of six, completing many Mel Bay lesson books, to jazz, blues and bluegrass,  he now sees the fretboard as Math. A great guitar player who loves Tony Rice, he's an interesting guy.

Accomplished singer-songwriter T. Edwin Doss will make you chuckle one moment and make you cry the next.  His songs cover humor, romance, faith and tragedy.  He describes his journey of pitching his award-winning songs to Nashville.

Rick Landers is an interesting man.  Not only is he an accomplished singer-songwriter, but he is the publisher of Guitar International Magazine (www.guitarinternational.com).  And, he collects guitars... a man after my own heart.

Starting with a Sears & Roebucks' Silvertone guitar, Michael Schirf has learned close to 1,000 songs during his 40+ year music career.  Woodstock almost became a first-hand experience at the tender age of 17.

Fran Tucker's mother was an opera singer and pianist, her father a multi-instrumentalist who was her first guitar teacher.  She still owns and sometimes plays her first guitar, a child-sized instrument she received at the age of seven.  

Frederick MD based finger-style guitarist Jon Mann describes his creative process for assembling his instrumentals from pieces and fragments, and talks about guitar collection and his custom made guitar vault.

Harpers Ferry WV guitarist Frank Davis discusses his early musical years, and explains how attending Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch guitar camp changed his life.

Host Todd C Walker compares guitar picks, demonstrating how guitar players can change their sound by changing picks.

Annapolis (MD) Americana singer-songwriter Michael Kelly is a true student of his acoustic guitar and the craft of songwriting, filling out his sound with banjo, mandolin, fiddle and harmonica.  

National touring artist and Maryland-based singer-songwriter Kristin Rebecca has made her name as a harp-playing singer, who also plays acoustic guitar and is a seasoned Renaissance Fair Celtic performer.  She talks learning harp, studying voice in college and how she decided to become a touring singer-songwriter.

'Boulder Canyon' John Denver tribute band member Kevin Delmolino grew up in a musical family, starting out singing a capella barbershop, which led into 1980's hair band rock, to a career in aviation, but music stayed with him, as it does today.

Tom Kohlhepp, the Frederick Folklorist, had a interesting job during his six years in the Navy, and it doesn't involve music.  But, Folk Music caught his attention early on and slowly grew into his passion, with a detour into track & field coaching.

York PA based singer-songwriter Michael Arthur writes poignant songs that explore the breadth and depth of the human experience, utilizing lush open guitar tunings.  He explains how he writes his songs, the time it takes, and his day job career as a rep in the music equipment business.

Regional musician Ken Glasser (one-half of Catoctin Mountain Highway) talks about the history of the Weissenborn Guitar, how he became interested in it, and relates his personal journey from Detroit-based high school jug band to today.

Josh Gray moved from Frederick MD to Nashville TN three years ago.  He discusses the move, the ups and downs of breaking into the Nashville music scene, and how he writes songs.

Chief engineer/owner of Torchlight Productions Recording Studio in Bealesville, MD, and accomplished singer-songwriter Jeff Feit talks about writing his first song at 12 after being wow'd by John Denver, not enjoying piano lessons and how he got interested in becoming a recording studio engineer.

F.A.M.E. (Frederick Acoustic Music Enterprise) social media coordinator discusses his college band (Howie & The Mutants), being a college disc jockey, lifting weights, becoming a Chiropractor and his interest in parody songs.

Maryland-based harmonica player Bill Hall discusses his love of horses, working and his transition from a degree in Veterinary Science to a career in Pathology with stops along the way in Vietnam, sailing the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and learning to play harmonica while driving.

Local Native American Style Flute player Stephen Darnell discusses his journey from playing handbells and the French Horn to his chosen instruments Native American Flute and penny whistle.

John DuRant Jr, son of John DuRant (the Troubadour), grew up playing guitar and saxophone.  He describes his musical upbringing, performing Jazz with Howard Burns and performing in Ireland, plus recording his wonderful CD 'Elevation Road'.

Mark McKay is a nationally ranked performing singer-songwriter who juggles his life between New York City and Frederick MD.  He discusses balancing live performing, songwriting, family and his day job that is based in NYC.  His songs have been compared to Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen.

Popular performing duo Safe Harbor is a marriage of two talented people brought together by a Gibson Les Paul guitar and a love of music.

Dr Doug Smith, owner of Shab Row Recording Studio in Frederick MD, enjoys recording live bands and using vintage microphones.  He explains the transition from analog to digital recording and what the difference is.  His history of early 1970's recording using simple equipment transitioned into both an undergraduate and doctoral degree in Physics, then a career at NIST.  Great info for the audiophile and those of us fairly ignorant of the technical aspects of recording.

Ken Demith is an interesting fellow.  A graphic artist by trade, but a songwriter at heart.  He discusses growing up in Nashville, rubbing shoulders with Reba McEntire and Roy Orbison, touring in a Zyde-Billy band, songwriting and recording from a distance.

Northern Virginia based singer-songwriter Michelle Swan talks about playing her Dad's giant guitar when she was five, her first guitar (a Seagull), her new Gibson J45, songwriting and her love of the clarinet and live performing.

Middletown MD based singer-songwriter Sammie J burst onto the local acoustic music scene as winner of the Chords of Courage songwriting competition, but she has been singing since a young age.  Listen to her talk about her musical journey, how she acquires guitars and being her own sound engineer in her basement studio.

Les Hatley is a member of the Maryland Entertainment Hall of Fame, he's a "WAMMIE" award winner, and has a rich musical history, starting in 1964 with his first guitar lesson. His second solo CD 'Surge' stayed on the Americana National Chart for almost all of 2013.  His third CD 'Chocolate' also placed on the Americana National Chart.  He has opened for Roberta Flack, Gary U.S. Bonds, Steppenwolf and more.  His songs have been included on television soundtracks for the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, MTV and The Learning Channel.  

Indulge the host (Todd C Walker) as he introduces songs from his unreleased 2006 CD 'Stories To Be Told'.  

Virginia based luthier Michael Kent O'Brien is a fascinating man.  Listen to him discuss how he transitioned from his childhood on the farm to Vienna, Austria, back to the DC area, the Smithsonian, to horses and horseshoes and finally to his workshop where he builds artisan guitars.

Folk/Americana singer-songwriter Andrew McKnight discusses how his ancestors helped him write his most recent CD 'Treasures In The Chest', why he performs songs from his living room, his guitar collection and how creative collisions can polish a song. 

Max Honn is an Americana Folk musician who grew up as a normal boy in a town named Normal who learned that his musical career wouldn't involve the clarinet, but did include a now treasured WWII era Gibson Southern Jumbo guitar and singing.

Shepherdstown WV Americana songwriter/performer Steve Warner talks about writing songs in his head, his musical journey and having four of his songs picked up by Nashville artists.

Hagerstown (MD) based performing songwriter Dave Dishneau talks about news writing, songwriting, learning to play the harmonica, cyber open mic's and stink bugs.

Maryland based performing songwriter Dave Weiner talks about his hero John Prine, songwriting and his love of Gibson Guitars.

John DuRant 'The Troubadour' discusses his musical beginnings as a 1960's Folk musician and how he became a 25-year veteran of the Maryland Renaissance Fair, a television host and his role in the movie Gettysburg.

Willie Barry of Willie Barry & the Chaperones and the Rock-A-Sonics discusses his musical journey from learning 88+ Bob Dylan songs to becoming a Rock-A-Billy star.

Singer-songwriter, educator and SNAFU founder David Morreale discusses his first guitar, busking around Europe and how he transitioned from touring performer to teaching career.

Part 2 of the 1st Annual Frederick Acoustic Music Enterprise (F.A.M.E.) picnic music mix, assembled from then current F.A.M.E. member's recorded music. 

Part 1 of the 1st Annual Frederick Acoustic Music Enterprise (F.A.M.E.) picnic music mix, assembled from then current F.A.M.E. members' recorded music.

F.A.M.E. founding member singer-songwriter Doug Alan Wilcox talks about his musical influences, how he writes songs and records them.  He also discusses his musical journey.