Kevin Roth
Encyclopedia
Kevin Roth is an American folk singer and dulcimer
player who has released thirty-two albums. His most recent CD is titled Between the Notes. He has performed at the White House
for Jimmy Carter
and Bill Clinton
.
He sang the theme song to the 1990s PBS
children's program Shining Time Station
.
Appalachian dulcimer
The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...
player who has released thirty-two albums. His most recent CD is titled Between the Notes. He has performed at the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
for Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
and Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
.
He sang the theme song to the 1990s PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
children's program Shining Time Station
Shining Time Station
Shining Time Station is an American children's television series co-created by Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company and Quality Family Entertainment in New York for New York City PBS Station WNET, and was filmed first in New York and then in Toronto...
.
Discography
- 1975: Kevin Roth Sings and Plays Dulcimer (Folkways RecordsFolkways RecordsFolkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music. It was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1987, and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways.-History:...
) - 1976: Somebody Give Me Direction (Folkways)
- 1976: The Other Side of the Mountain (Folkways)
- 1977: The Mountain Dulcimer Instrumental Album (Folkways)
- 1978: The First Few Words: Mountain Dulcimer Instrumental Album, Vol. 2 (Folkways)
- 1979: Dulcimer Instruction Album (Folkways)
- 1980: New Wind (Folkways)
- 1981: The Living and the Breathing Wind (Folkways)
- 1981: Women (Folkways)
- 1982: Dulcimer Man (Folkways)
- 1982: The Quiet Times (Folkways)
- 1983: Don't Wait For Me and Songs of the First Decade (Folkways)
Roth with Ola Belle Reed
- 1976: My Epitaph: A Documentary in Song and Lyric
- 1978: All In One Evening
External links
- Home Page
- Folk Wonder
- Roth at Folkways RecordsFolkways RecordsFolkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music. It was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1987, and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways.-History:...