Jeff Warner: September 8th 2007
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.
He is the editor of Traditional American Folk Songs: From the Anne and Frank Warner Collection, (Syracuse University Press, 1984), and producer of the 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.
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 is producer of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival. He is on the Artist Roster of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Find Jeff Warner’s website at http://www.jeffwarner.com/