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Rod MacDonald
Rod MacDonald was born in Connecticut and began singing professionally in New York City, where he became a leading headliner in Greenwich Village clubs in the 1980s. He recorded 21 songs for
Fast Folk magazine (now in the Smithsonian Folkways collection), including "American Jerusalem," "A Sailor's Prayer," "Every Living Thing," and "White Buffalo," also recorded by numerous other artists. He has 14 solo CDs, mostly recently
Rants and Romance. The last four have made the top ten nationally on folk radio charts. Rod has also recorded three CDs with the Palm Beach County band Big Brass Bed, which
New Times named "Best Folk Band" in 2016. Now living in south Florida, Rod has been named to the "Ten Greatest South Florida Folksingers Of All Time" list by
New Times, and one of "Ten Magnificent Musicians of Palm Beach County" by
The Palm Beach Post. He is also Music Americana instructor with Osher Lifelong Learning at Florida Atlantic University, and was named Distinguished Faculty Member in 2012. His second novel,
The American Guerillas, was published in 2021.
rodmacdonald.com
facebook.com/rodmacdonaldmusic
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