Ed Trickett (Monthly Program)

The Return of a Finder and Sharer of SongsEd Trickett is both a collector and catalyst for folk music. He was one of the crystals around whom the Golden Ring formed, a community of musicians who gathered to share songs instead of merely sing at each other. He played for many years with Gordon Bok and Anne Mayo Muir. He has been collecting and interpreting traditional and traditional-based folk songs for over 3 decades, from traditional sources and other contemporary singers, wherever he finds a song worth sharing.Ed Tickett has appeared on over 40 recordings and on many broadcasts including Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. His repertoire includes a wide range of ballads, sea songs, songs of love and protest, and an occasional song of no consequence whatsoever. Ed's early choral training comes out as he uses his 6 and 12 string guitars and hammered dulcimer as distinct voices to achieve texture and counterpoint. Yet, he still puts the song in front of the singer, delivering it with emotion and honesty.He grew up in DC, "back in the days when you could afford to grow up near Dupont Circle." By day, he's a professor of psychology, and though he's left our precincts (and the University of Maryland) for Chicago, he returns in March to his old stomping grounds and his friends at FSGW.