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About Tom Breiding...
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Tom Breiding's epic songs echo the voices resonating from the coalfields of West Virginia, the mills of industrial Pittsburgh, and the Main Streets of small-town America.
"Breiding is a fantastic songwriter, and an even more gifted performer. His lyrics are honest and empathic, and the instrumentation is outstanding."
- About Folk.com (NY Times, Co.)
***** 5 out of 5 Stars *****
Breiding's recent release The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields spent sixteen weeks in the top 100 on the AMA Chart, climbing as high as #55 and reached #18 on the RMR Folk Chart with more than 1100 reported spins in every corner of the U.S.
"It is the strength of the songwriting on this CD that makes the biggest impression...'The House We Called Home' is likely to become a new folk standard."
- Dirty Linen Magazine
Selected by producer/host of WFDU's Traditions in Teaneck, NJ, Breiding was Ron Olesko's invited guest performer for his DJ Showcase at the 2007 NERFA Conference in Monticello, NY. The Unbroken Circle also made Olesko's Top 10 Essential Albums of 2007. In May 2007, Breiding performed songs from The Unbroken Circle on World Cafe Live as a guest of Gene Shay, "Dean of America's Folk DJs" and co-founder of the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
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Breiding is currently a teaching artist at Calliope, Pittsburgh's Folk Society. Tom was hired in part to write material for, and to produce an album to celebrate Pittsburgh 250.
The resulting album, When We Shine: Fifteen Songs About Pittsburgh, recorded at Breiding's AmeriSon Studio, will be released in August of 2008.
Breiding is the founder/host of The AmeriSon Ballroom Folk Series at Cefalo's Nightclub in Carnegie, PA outside of Pittsburgh. The series featured some high profile folk artists with whom Breiding has performed. Beaucoup Blue, Gillen and Turk, Bob Beach, and Joe Jencks were Tom's guests at the series and overnight guests at his home before they returned to the road. The series will resume in the fall with Doug and Telisha Williams, Gillen and Turk, and artists yet to be determined.
In the early 1990's Breiding served as a staff-writer at Collins Music, Corp., then a major player on Nashville's Music Row, and Tom has released ten albums since 1991.
Tom Breiding is a diverse musician who currently tours and performs as a member of three different bands and as a solo artist, has produced five albums for his independent label AmeriSon Records, conducts regular songwriting workshops, and has performed his material in venues from Times Square to Ventura Boulevard, and in more than 100 schools in recent months.
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