With warmth, humor and understated scholarship, Jeff Warner connects
21st century audiences with the music and everyday lives of 19th century
people. He presents musical traditions from the Outer Banks fishing
villages of North Carolina, to the lumber camps of the Adirondack
Mountains and the whaling ports of New England. His songs have
“the stamp of authority and real experience” (Tykes News,
Yorkshire, UK). He has honed his craft in front of audiences
across the country at festivals, museums, clubs and schools.
His songs, rich in local history and a sense of place,
bring us the latest news from the distant past.
“Firsthand experience, married to complete mastery of traditional [music], and allied to a natural voice and dry, understated humor in the American vein of Missourian Harry Truman and Mississippian Mark Twain.”
The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Warner is a Folklorist and Community Scholar for the
New Hampshire Council on the Arts, has been named an Arts Council Fellow for 2007, and is on the Speaker’s Roster for the New Hampshire Humanities Council. He has toured nationally for the Smithsonian Institution and has recorded for Flying Fish/Rounder and other labels. His 1995 recording Two Little Boys: More Old Time Songs for Kids, received a Parents’ Choice Award.
“The Saturday evening performance you did is one I’ll never forget. You’re a real treasure.”
Craig Edwards, Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport
“Providing more than just rich entertainment, Jeff will leave you with a deeper appreciation of the land you live in.”
Caffé Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
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He is the editor of Traditional American Folk Songs: From the Anne and Frank Warner Collection, (Syracuse University Press, 1984), and producer of the 2-CD set Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: The Warner Collection, (Appleseed Recordings, 2000). Her Bright Smile is the actual voices of singers who were born from 1860 to 1900, recorded on early disk recorders by the Warners. Both publications make available the work of his parents, who were pioneer collectors of songs from rural America.
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“It was wonderful having you on staff this year. Many people spoke to Molly [Mason] and me and wrote in their evaluations about how much they appreciated your classes, your accessibility, your teaching skills...and the way you wove songs into the week with impeccable taste and timing. We agree with their assessment. Thanks for giving so much of yourself to the week.”
Jay Ungar, Fiddle and Dance Camp, Ashokan, NY
Jeff Warner is past president of the Country Dance and Song Society, a
past officer of the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance, has
been an artist for Virginia, Utah and Ohio Arts Councils and a
producer of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. He is on
the Artist Roster of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
New Hampshire organizations may present Jeff Warner through
the New Hampshire Humanities Council’s Humanities To Go program.
New England presenting organizations, other than New Hampshire,
may seek funding for his presentations. For information
please go to New England Foundation for the Arts.
“He is a talented musician on a variety of instruments, but that is completely overshone by his total love of, and involvement in, the songs he sings – he inhabits a song in a way which very few singers can do. One of the best evenings of the year.”
Molly Mockford of Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes, UK
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Copyright © 2001-2009 Jeff Warner
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