Landslide top vote-getter at the Falcon Ridge (NY) Folk Festival's "Most-Wanted" competition (1996) and NAIRD "Indie" nominee (singer-songwriter album of the year 1994) for "Digging Through My Closet", David Roth strikes many chords, hearts, and minds with his unique songs, moving stories, offbeat observations, and powerful singing and subject matter .
"David has reached our hearts. With voices like his still singing, there's a certainty that the candle will remain lit, the hope reasserted, and the dream still sung." -Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary)
Since emerging from another nationwide field of several hundred songwriters to open the 1987 Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival as it's New Folk Winner, the Chicago native (and two-time national anthem singer for the NBA's Michael Jordan-era Bulls) has garnered accolades for his performances, workshops, writing, and recordings. He's subsequently been a songwriting judge at other national competitions including Kerrville, Napa Valley (CA), Tumbleweed (WA), and the South Florida Folk Festival. In addition to singing "Earth" at the 40th Anniversary of the United Nations, David's "Rising in Love" was performed at the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall in 1991, and "Manuel Garcia" and "Nine Gold Medals" both appear in the international best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, available in bookstores throughout the world. Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary) performed David's "Spacesuits" on the 1999/2000 PPM tours and recorded "If You Can't Fly" for his 2002 children's album "World Around Song". The BOSE Corporation includes "Taller Than My Hair" and "Five Blind Men" on their recent "best of new folk" compilations sold in Bose stores worldwide.
David has 8 CDs on Chicago's Wind River label (www.folkera.com/windriver), a ninth on Germany's Stockfisch label (www.stockfisch-records.de), is endorsed by Elixir® Strings and Martin Guitars, and is a member of the National Speakers Association, giving keynotes and workshops at a wide variety of conferences, trainings, and special events across North America. Several of David's songs also appear in the business best-selling books "Care Packages for the Workplace" and "Care Packages for the Home" by Barbara Glanz (published by McGraw-Hill and Andrews-McMeel respectively).
In addition to performing at music festivals, concert halls, clubs, and other venues, David leads singing, songwriting, and performance workshops at many music camps around the country (he was artist-in-residence for several years at New York's Omega Institute, one of the country's leading adult education centers). David's one-man play "The Gripes of Roth" premiered in 1994 at the Nomad Theater in Boulder, CO.
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