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Journalism
My first
foray into journalism was in college (1978-1982), when I was a writer
and then an editor for the Northern
Light, an erratically published political and cultural
magazine once available on the campus of St. Lawrence University.
A decade later I wrote a few free-lance articles for Press Magazine in
Denmark at the invitation of my old friend Flemming Andersen,
one of the editors. A few years later he moved to a daily paper Aktuelt
In 2002 I started writing for City Newspaper
in Rochester, New York. I focused on music, mostly folk and roots music.
In 2003 I began free-lancing for the Ithaca Journal
and the Trumansburg
Free Press and in 2006 I became a full-time reporter for Finger Lakes Community Newspapers
and began writing for Dirty Linen
and I
contributed regularly to a humor column.
Magazine. In July 2007 I became the editor of all nine Finger Lakes
Newspapers, a post I held for a years until I quite to become a
technical writer.
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Radio
While
I was
in graduate
school at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1988-1991), I adopted a
nom d'aire, Mr. Fishscales, and did a blues show called "You Gotta Pay
Yer Dues" and then a weird rock and trad show called the "Hibernian
Weather Channel" on WMUA-FM.
In 1998 my wife Deirdre got interested in Irish traditional music and
offered both her own and my services to Ted McGraw, who
was looking for co-hosts for his "Irish Party House" on a local AM
station.
After about year Ted moved his show to WRUR-FM
and his son John started doing the show with him. So I resurrected the
Hibernian Weather Channel. I did this show until I left the University
of Rochester in 2003.
Sometime in 2004 I became a regular substitute on Nonesuch,
a folk and roots show on WVBR-FM.
Two years later I stopped having time to do it and since then have not
been on the air.
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Music
I'm
not much
of a musician; I hate practicing. But I love listening to and promoting
and recording music.
In about 2000 or so I went to the former Montage Grille in Rochester to
see a double-bill with Steve
Wynn and the Miracle 3 and Richard Lloyd
of Television. There were about 12 people at this show and I struck up
a conversation at the bar with Dave deCastro, the bass player in the
Miracle 3. I bought one of his self-produced solo CDs and became a big
fan. Before the MySpace
revolution I made a simple
webpage for him.
In 2000 I also found out that was distantly related to a very large
musical family in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The Chaissons have
since been down to visit.
I made a simple webpage for Lem
Chaisson.
These days Deirdre has been putting together workshops
with local musicians.
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