Debra
Cowan Performance Resume
Festivals
(highlights)
Mystic
Seaport Sea Music Festival (USA)
2010, 2006, 2002
Halifax Harbour Sea Music Festival
(CAN) 2010 Broadstairs Folk Week (UK) 2009 Scarborough Sea Music Festicval (UK) 2009 Old Songs Festival (USA)
2010, 2008 Gotta Get Gon Festival
(USA) 2009
Chicago Maritime Festival
(USA) 2008
Working
Waterfront
Festival (USA) 2007
Lancaster Maritime
Festival (UK) 2006, 2005, 2004,
9th Annual Windjammer
Weekend
(USA) 2003
Champlain
Valley Folk Festival (USA) 2003
Greater
New Bedford Summerfest (USA)
2002, 2001, 2000
Portsmouth,
NH Maritime Music Festival (USA) 2005,
2001
Falcon
Ridge Folk Festival Showcase (USA) 2001
Aberdeen
Alternative Festival (UK)1997
Dunbar
Folk
Festival (UK) 1997
Edinburgh
Fringe Festival (UK) 1997
Chico
World Music Festival (USA) 1995
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Schools,
Museums, Libraries. Residencies/Outreach, Instruction (highlights) Tuckerton Seaport, Tuckerton, NJ (2011)
Singing Workshop, Malden Bridge, NY (2011) Peoria Park District, Peoria, IL (2011) Guest Lecturer, Media Studies, Leeds University (UK) 2011,
2008 New Bedford National Historic Park, New Bedford, MA (2010, 2007)
Singing Workshop, Montpelier, VT (2010)
Whiting Village School, Lubec, ME
(2010)
Chicago Maritime Festival Outreach (2008)
Snow Public Library, Orleans, MA
(2007)
Shrewsbury Public Library, Shrewsbury, MA (2007)
Millville Public Library Millville, MA (2007)
Boyden Public Library Foxborough, MA (2007)
Folk
Music Society of New York Residency
(2007)
Guilford
Free
Library, Guilford, CT (2007)
City
College of San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA (2007)
National
Maritime History
Park, San Francisco, CA (2007)
CT
Audubon Society (2006)
CK
Price Middle School, Orland, CA (2005)
Daniel Boone
Regional Library, Columbia, MO (2004)
Coffeyville
Community College Outreach Residency, Coffeeville,
KS (2004)
Museum of
Scotland, Edinburgh,
UK (2003)
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Venues (highlights) Branford Folk Music Society (Branford, CT) 2011,2006, 2000 Llantrisant Folk Club, Wales, UK 2011 Bothy Folk Club (Southport, UK) 2011, 2008 Stockport Folk Club, (Stockport, UK) 2011, 2006, 2003 Bacca Pipes Folk Club (Keighley, UK) 2011, 2009, 2004 TenPound Fiddle, (Lansing, MI) 2011 Acoustic Rennaissance Concerts (Hinsdale, IL) 2011 The Minstrel Coffeehouse (New Jersey Folk Project) 2011, 2005, 2001, 2000 Cambridge Folk Society (Cambridge, ON CAN) 2010 Aeolian Arts Centre (London, ON, CAN 2010 Johnny D’s Uptown (Somerville, MA) 2010, 2003 Arts @ St. John's (Lodi, CA) 2010, 2007 Un’I Coffeehouse (Springfield, MA) 2009, 2001, 1998 Laurel Mtn. Coffeehouse (Kingswood, WV) 2009, 2005 UU Church of Charleston (Charleston, WV) 2009 Folk Song Society of Greater Washington, DC 2008, 2005, 2002 Living Tradition Concert Series (Anaheim, CA) 2008, 2005 Cramlington Folk Club (Cramlington, UK) 2008 South Shore Folk Music Club (Kingston, MA) 2008 Kelso Folk Club (Kelso, UK) 2008, 2003 WFMT “Folkstage”, Chicago, IL 2008, 2003 Princeton Folk Music Society (Princeton, NJ) 2007 Toledo Folk Music (Toledo, OR) 2007 Oaksong Society (Redding CA) 2007 New Haven Folk Alliance, (New Haven, CT) “Traditional Songs Night” 2007, 2001-2005 Fiddle and Bow Society (Winston-Salem, NC) 2006 South Florida Folk Club (Coral Springs, FL) 2006, 2000 Shenandoah Coffeehouse Series (WV & VA) 2006, 2003 Woods Hole Folk Music Society (Woods Hole, MA) 2006, 2003 Wee Folk Club (Edinburgh, UK) 2005 Glenfarg Folk Club (Glenfarg, UK) 2005 Club Passim (Cambridge, MA) 2006, 2005, Butte Folk Music Society (Chico, CA) 2005, 2001, 1999 Golden Link Folk Singing Society (Rochester, NY) 2004, 2002 Barton Arts Council (Great Bend, KS) 2004 Linden Tree Coffeehouse (Wakefield, MA) 2003, 2002, 2000 Little Rock Folk Club (Little Rock, AR) 2003 Front Porch Music (Valparaiso, IN) 2003 The Focal Point (St. Louis, MO) 2003 Club Acoustic (Buxton, UK) 2003 NE Regional Folk Alliance Formal Showcase 2002 Vic’s Music Corner (Rockville, MD) 2002 The Narrows Center For The Arts (Fall River, MA) 2002 NY Pinewoods Folk Music Club (New York, NY) 2002 Sounding Board Concert Series (Hartford, CT) 2002 Residency in Sandy Bell’s Pub (Edinburgh, Scotland) July-December 1997
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Discography
Fond
Desire Farewell (Falling
Mountain Music 2009) solo Still Moving Mountains (Aurora Lights 2009) compilation
Midwinter- The
Folk Music &
Traditions of Christmas and the Turning of the Year
(Free-Reed Records Box
set compilation-2006)
RT-The
Life and Times of Richard Thompson (Free-Reed Records Box
set compilation-2006)
Dad's
Dinner Pail and Other Songs From the Helen Hartness Flanders
Collection
(Falling
Mountain Music-2005)
The
Long Grey Line (2001) solo
The
Songs and Ballads of Hattie Mae Tyler Cargill (Folk Legacy
Records-2001)
Banks
of Green Willow (2000) solo
A
Dram For the Singer (1997) w/David Cowan
Til
the Porter Is Drained (1993) w/Tar’d & Feather'd
Tar’d
& Feather’d (1989) w/Tar’d & Feather’d
EZ
Pickin’ Band (1983) w/The EZ Pickin' Band
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