Glen Roethel brings a fresh energy to the SummerSongs experience. He is the founder of the now-reformed folk-rock harmony trio Gathering Time, and co-founder of AcousticMusicScene.com, a website which presents news and commentary for the Folk, Roots & Singer-Songwriter communities. He teaches guitar, songwriting, harmony, and performance at SummerSongs and is known for his creative, fun multi-modal classes (which enrich players of all skill levels), plus legendary late-night jam-singalong-dance parties which ring out in the night after the evening coffeehouses and song circles have wrapped up, and meaningful one-on-one mentoring on many topics.
He is an award-winning songwriter and 2-time recipient of the emPower Posi Award (Positive music), a jury-selected performer at NERFA and the 5th Annual Singer-Songwriter Cape May festival. He saw his song “Namaste” featured in a multi-media exhibit at the Presidential Museum in Texas for three months, and his songs, “People of the Earth” and “Morning Prayer” published in New Thought songbooks. (“People of the Earth” was later published in the Hal Leonard Corp songbook, 101 Inspiring Songs: The Ultimate New Thought Fakebook).
To Glen’s credit are six self-produced CDs (From Beginning to End, Smaller Things, Unfolding [solos, Inspireline Records]; Red Apples And Gold, Songs of Hope and Freedom [Gathering Time, Inspireline Records]; ambition [gush, Indigo Records]); beautiful compilations of new “healing” songs (Infinite Surface Of The Heart), winter holiday season songs (More Than A Season), and congregational songs/songbook (Go Out and Shine), from the Posi label, [emPower Music & Arts]; as well as guitar/bass/vocal/ukulele/keyboard/percussion performances and co-writes on gorgeous and award-winning recordings by Penny Nichols, Sloan Wainwright, Sue Riley, and many others. In addition to his solo efforts, Roethel is a member of the message-driven folk harmony trio known as Us! with Judy Kass and Amy Soucy.
