This week’s guest In the Flamingo Lounge, Dave Ruch, visited the Flamingo Lounge on September 17, 2024.

Dave is a full-time performer and researcher of historical and traditional music whose work has been featured on American Public Media, in Emmy Award-winning documentaries, on stages across North America and the U.K., and in elementary school classrooms across the Northeast. Dave is also a life-long

With expert musicianship and a warm, effortless style, he delights audiences with authentic songs and stories from the people who built and settled our communities – – farmers, domestics, lumbermen, fiddlers, women, soldiers, children, immigrants, sailors, native Americans, canallers, and more

Dave finds his song material in dusty archives, obscure songbooks, diaries, old field recordings, scholarly journals and sometimes from his own children, and brings these gems to life with great skill on banjo, guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin, bones, spoons, washboard and jaw harp.

Dave Ruch is a former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities (now Humanities NY), writer for The Huffington Post, and a member of the Canal Society of New York State and the New York Folklore Society.

You can get more information about dave at his website, Marketing Blog for Musicians or at the Organ Fairchild Website.