"The gems of the night were undoubtedlyWalt Michael & Co. . . .
with tasteful panache they stole away all hearts,
Walt making his dulcimer sound like a full orchestra - tutti virtuosi!"
Folk Music News, London

UNITED STATES
The White House, Washington, DC
Lincoln Center, NYC
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
Olympic Arts Festival, Lake Placid, NY
American Dance Festival, Winston Salem, NC
Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC
Merlefest, Wilkesboro, NC
Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield, KS
Kentucky Center for the Arts, Louisville, KY
Philadelphia Folk Festival, PA
Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Hillsdale, NY
Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, NY
Metropolitan Musuem, NYC
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Pepsico Summerfare, Purchase, NY
International Celtic Festival, Hunter, NY
Summer Solstice Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Sterling Forest, NY
Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA
Lonestar State Dulcimer Festival, Glen Rose, TX
Blakely Cajun Festival, Blakely, AL
First Night Annapolis, MD
First Night Dover, DE
First Night Frederick, MD
First Night Winchester, VA
First Night Oneonta, NY
Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF),
Black Mountain, NC
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
IBMA Fanfest, Louisville, KY
Common Ground on the Hill, Westminster, MD
Albuquerque Folk Festival, NM

TELEVISION & RADIO
13th Winter Olympics, ABC-TV
Closing Ceremonies, Composer & Performer

Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, NBC-TV
Fire on the Mountain,
TNN-Nashville Network
Bluegrass from Waterloo, PBS
Prairie Home Companion, NPR
E-Town,
NPR
Our Front Porch,
NPR
Live from Culzean Castle, BBC Radio
Cowboy 101, Outdoor Living Network
Music Director, Composer & Musician

FEATURE RECORDINGS
Containing original compositions & traditional tunes:
Bermudaful, Music for Hammered Dulcimer
Step Stone
Retrospective for Hammered Dulcimer
Live in Scotland: Legacy
Live at Dean Castle

Smokey Mountain Gospel
The Good Old Way
Walt Michael & Co. Live! at RPI
The Host of the Air
Dance Like a Wave of the Sea
Light Our Way Along the Highway
Bottle Hill - A Rumor in their Own Time

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INSTRUCTIONAL
Tunes & Techniques, VHS
Tunes for Hammered Dulcimer, VHS
Celtic Tunes for Hammered Dulcimer
VHS, Book, Cassette

WALT MICHAEL
ANNUAL HOLIDAY CONCERTS
December 2005
Walt Michael and his New York Company
December 2004
Walt Michael and Michael Chapdeleine
December 2003
Walt Michael with Evan Stover, Barry Mitterhoff, Tom Wetmore
December 2002
Walt Michael with Lea Gilmore, Wale Liniger,
Hank Reiff and Rob Caswell

December 2001
Walt Michael with Robin Bullock and Josh McCardle

Walt Michael is the Founder, Artsitic Director and Exeutive Director of Common Ground on the Hill, in it's 11th year in Westminster, Maryland, and4th year in Ayrshire, Scotland USA.

Common Ground on the Hill

Most recently Walt Michael played on stage with Guy Davis, January 8, 2005, at the Carroll Arts Center. Walt Michael & Company has opened for Ramblin's Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, Etta Baker, Odetta, Peter Rowan, Peggy Seeger, Robin & Linda Williams, Nancy Griffith, and Bill Cosby.


Wal.t Michael in concert with Barry Mitterhoff and Tom Wetmore. Photo by Richard Anderson. www.rnaphoto.com

INTERNATIONAL
Bermuda Fringe Festival, Bermuda
Festival Folk d’Epalinge, Switzerland
Mahogany Hall, Berne, Switzerland
Inverness Folk Festival, Scotland
Across theTweed Festival, Scotland
Sidmouth Folk Festival, England
Shetland Folk Festival, Scotland
Girvan Folk Festival, Scotland
Belfast Music Festival, N. Ireland
Sunflower Club, N. Ireland
Armagh Folk Club, N. Ireland
The American Center, Paris, France
La Cour des Miracles, Paris, France
Folk Club de Sarrano, Italy
Winnipeg Folk Festival, Canada
Edmonton Folk Festival, Canada
Toronto Folk Festival, Canada
Owen Sound Folk Festival, Canada
Vancouver Folk Festival, Canada
North Winds Festival, Canada

STAGE PRODUCTIONS
Molly’s Not Dead, composer & musician
with Pilobolus Dance Theater
on Broadway, NYC, and World Tour

Folksay, with Alvin Ailey Am. Dance Theater

PREMIER CLUBS
Caffé Lena, Saratoga, NY
The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
The Lonestar, NYC
Folk City, NYC
The Palamino, Los Angeles, CA
Towne Crier Café, Pawling, NY
Passim, Cambridge, MA
Freight & Salvage, Berkley, CA
The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI
Ethel’s Place, Baltimore, MD
The Speakeasy, NYC

TEACHING RESIDENCIES
Common Ground on the Hill,
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
Augusta Heritage Workshops,
Davis & Elkins College
Swannanoa Gathering,
Warren Wilson College
Upper Potomac Dulcimer Festival,
Shepherdstown, WV
Stephen Foster Cultural Center
White Springs, FL

SCHOOLS
Walt Michael has performed, presented workshops,
and conducted residencies in countless public and private school systems throughout the United States, including: Maryland, New York, California, Florida,
Washington, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Georgia,
North Carolina, and Virginia.

GUEST PERFORMANCE RECORDINGS
Let Me Back Into Your Life, w/Tom Chapin
Around the World and Back Again,
with Tom Chapin
Step by Step, w/ John McCutcheon
The Three Musics, w/ Jo Morrison
A Waulking Tour, w/Jo Morrison
The Highlander’s Farewell, with Tad Marks
The Singing Kettle, with Cilla Fisher
& Artie Trezise

Revival, with Jim Wood
Tradition, with Jim Wood

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