Jay Smar - www.jaysmar.com
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PERFORMANCES
- Scotland tour 2003 and 2006
- Philadelphia Folk Festival 2003 and 2006
- New Jersey Folk Festival 2006
- 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
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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
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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
- 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
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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.."