David Roth has taught at nearly every WinterSongs and SummerSongs since the camps began in 1999, and now serves as the executive director. David strikes many chords, hearts, and minds with his unique songs, offbeat observations, moving stories, sense of the hilarious, and powerful singing and subject matter. His music has found it’s way to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, the Kennedy Center, Peter, Paul, & Mary and Kingston Trio CDs (and 15 of his own), NASA’s Goddard Space Center (“Rocket Science” went up on the Space Shuttle Atlantis’s May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Telescope), and the classic folk song books “Rise Up Singing” and “Rise Again” (sequel). David has also taught singing, songwriting, and performance at the Augusta Heritage workshops, SummerSongs (NY – where he currently serves as Executive Director), Common Ground on the Hill (MD), the Woods Dance & Music Camp (Canada), WUMB’s Summer Acoustic Music Week (NH), Moab Folk Camp (UT), Rowe Center (MA), Pendle Hill (PA), Lamb’s Retreat (MI), the Swannanoa Gathering (NC), the National Wellness Institute (WI), and for many other songwriting groups and associations around the country. David is also founder/director of the Cape Cod Songwriters Retreats and creator/host of Cape Cod’s “Full Moon Open Mic” which, for the past 20 years has provided a forum for musicians to connect and be heard while at the same time collecting donations (more than $17,000 to date) for local non-profits to help neighbors in need.~ davidrothmusic.com
