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Greg was born
in Oakland, California, April 1,1946. Greg attended boarding
school in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Exeter
High School in 1964. He was educated at Cal State, Long Beach
and ultimately earned a BA in Liberal Studies from Sonoma
State University in 1989.
Throughout the late '60s and '70s he pursued a career as a
Top 40's musician and original songwriter in Southern Califomia.
Greg was employed by the Willits Unified School District as
a Visual and Performing Arts Specialist for the elementary
schools in 1987. He now serves as Music Director at Sherwood
School and substitute teacher for the district, where his enthusiasm
imparts a love of music to students at all levels. Most recently,
he has been performing at educational assemblies at elementary
schools and museums in Northern California.
He leads the music at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Willits
each week with his guitar, as he has since 1988. He has been
called "the heart of the congregation" and his music has been
equally moving for both weddings and funerals.
He appears regularly with Black Bart Gunfighters of Willits,
a local non-profit group that performs to raise money for local
high school scholarships.
He has appeared on the Skunk Train, as TRAIN SINGER since 1988.
Over the years he has built a broad based collection of popular
and traditional train songs which he performs on guitar, harmonica
and whistles to the delight of passengers on the sylvan excursion
ride.
Most recently Greg has produced a CD, with Laughing Coyote
Studios, containing 20 of these songs, which reflect the history
and music of the railroad. It is music that "resonates with
the soul of anyone who has ever loved a train." Included in
this collection are four original train songs, written by Greg,
that are unique to California Western Railroad's excursion
ride through the beautiful North Coast Redwoods. Through it
all is his enthusiastic finger-picking guitar style, harmonicas
and whistles. His daughter Heidi lends contrast with her clear "bell-like" soprano
on several duets.
Upcoming projects include plans to produce and release CD's
containing all of Train Singer's favorite and most requested
songs.
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