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Traveling singer-songwriter Greg Alexander performs a combination of future folk & acoustic blues. What is Future Folk? Not songs that were written just yesterday or even today, it is music and a story that could be written tomorrow.  

Born in Springfield , Massachusetts , Greg found his way to writing music during a year abroad as an exchange student in Paris.

“My host parents were performers, actors and singers. They gave me a guitar to communicate until I could speak French - that took about six months. By then I was hooked on making music.”

Upon returning home Greg continued writing by borrowing his own mother’s Guild F-20.

“Mom was going through her own Richie Havens phase at the time; she never got that guitar back, by the way.”

A graduate of New York City 's National Shakespeare Conservatory, he has toured as both an actor & musician with the National Shakespeare Company and Chrysalis Theatre Company of Northampton , Massachusetts ; among others.

"When theater is in cahoots with music - it's the best, it truly is." 


Honors and Credits

Winner, New Folk Talent Search, Newport Folk Festival
Winner, New Folk Showcase, New Jersey Folk Festival        
Emerging Artist Performer, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Finalist, Singer/Songwriter Showcase, Solarfest

Quotes and Testimonials

"You get back to the originality and that's an artist's greatest gift;
that single thing sets you apart." 
 – Rita Houston, music director, WFUV-FM.

His live performance is an evening for the good in man (humanity).
–The Tip, Berlin , Germany

Greg has CDs available on his own label; Summit House Music
His next CD "American Lullaby" is due for release in the Fall of 2008.

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