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Rick Spencer - Selected Performance Credits

Live Television and Radio Appearances:
-ABC-TV Good Morning America - On air interview and musical performance.
-National Public Radio All Things Considered interview with Noah Adams.

Historical or Documentary Television Appearances:
-PBS Television. "Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World" A film by Ric Burns. Worked as music consultant and portrayed 19th century whaleman.
-NBC Television. Dateline NBC, “The Revenge of the Whale.” Portrayal of shipwrecked sailor.
-History Channel. Modern Marvels, “Loading Docks.” Portrayal of shipboard cargo loading crew member.
-CPTV. Mark Twain’s Hartford. Portrayal of Twain’s friend and co-author Charles Dudley Warner.
-The A&E Channel. DeToqueville’s America. Portrayal of shipboard musician and sailor.
-PBS. The American Experience. Portrayal of shipboard sailor.

Musical Performance:
-Extensive experience with accompanied and a capella singing, solo and ensemble.
-Instrumentalist and vocalist with the group “Forebitter.” 1987 to present.
-Proficient on: Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Dulcimer, Concertina. Vocal Range: Tenor.

-Selected list of performances include appearances at
-Chicago Maritime Festival 2010
-US Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal.
-National Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA.
-Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
-Concert and music festival appearances throughout the US, in France, England, Canada, Poland, Portugal,
the Netherlands and Germany from 1991 to the present.
-Hundreds of appearances for audiences in folk music concert venues, schools, libraries, historical societies, museums, etc.

Video:
-Promotional video with Walter Cronkite for Mystic Seaport.
-Elegy for an Icon, by Nicholas Checker. Composed and performed the title song. Portrayed historical character Lieutenant Lion Gardiner.

Theater Experience:
-Script writer and actor for Mystic Seaport’s Lantern Light Tours.
-Composer and lyricist for the musical play Run to Elysia by Nicholas Checker.
-Musical Director and accompanist for Run to Elysia. Avery Point Playhouse, Groton, CT.
-Portrayed the character Ivan in staged readings of Eugene O’Neill’s sea trilogy, Mystic Seaport.
-Portrayed villain John Knipe in The 10th Voyage by Ann Peabody. Mystic Seaport.

Recording Credits:
Producer, musical arranger, recording and remix engineer and session musician for
The Days When We Were Young, Rick Spencer CD
Waiting For Me, Rick Spencer CD
Love’s Labor, Donna Glover and Rick Spencer CD
Kindred Spirits, The WindLasses. CD and Cassette.
From the Shore, David Littlefield. CD and Cassette.
Contentment, Rick Spencer. CD and Cassette
Session musician for Where We've Been, Ask Your Father. CD
Session musician for The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelson, Jerry Bryant. CD and Cassette.
Session musician for Songs of the Sailor, with the Mystic Seaport Chanteyman.
Session musician for Always Wecome, Marc Bernier. CD

Recording artist and member of the quartet “Forebitter” on the recordings
Link of Chain. Forebitter Sings Songs of the Sea, Volume I. CD and Cassette.
Voyages. Forebitter Sings Songs of the Sea, Volume II. CD
American Sea Chanteys, CD
Unmooring, CD and Cassette released 1995.
On the Ran-Tan, Cassette released 1989.

Selections from Forebitter also have appeared on five editions of recordings released by the French production company Chasse Maree, and on three compilation recordings from the Oasis Recording acoustic music samplers.