Jeremiah Birnbaum

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Jeremiah Birnbaum is a singer/songwriter; his music is often described as a combination of rock, folk, blues, country, and the influences of such artists as Gillian Welch,Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, Carole King, CSNY, and Otis Redding. Birnbaum currently resides in Manhattan and is often seen touring solo or with a collection of fellow songwriters, known collectively as MercyDriver. These include Illinois' Kara Kulpa and Shelley Miller, plus fellow New Yorker Dave Golden.

Birnbaum was born in March 1978 in Boston. After a few years his family moved to Maplewood, New Jersey, a small town in the shadows of NYC. He got his first guitar at the age of ten and started writing his own songs at seventeen, in 1995. In 1999 he moved to Boston to study audio engineering at Berklee College of Music. In Boston, he met notable artists such as Peter Wolf and others, and was honored to share the stage with Wolf, John Medeski, and the surviving members of Morphine at a tribute to their fallen bandleader, Mark Sandman. In 2001, Birnbaum moved to London where he worked in a busy recording studio and studied musicology at City University, London. Following his time in the UK, Birnbaum relocated to New York City and attended the New School. He graduated in 2003 having studied mainly transcendentalist literature and western philosophy, in addition to poetry, art theory and formal music instruction.

In 2004, Birnbaum independently released his debut EP, Dawn. He’s received praise from such outlets as New York's The Village Voice and Indianapolis' Nuvo Newsweekly, was a pre-finalist for the new song competition at the 2004 Newport Folk Festival, and is the recipient of a PLUS Award from ASCAP. In New York City, he plays often at venues in the Ludlow Street scene in the Lower East Side and also in the East Village, and has opened for such acts as Suzanne Vega. A vibrant advocate for new and emerging music, Birnbaum was the longtime host of a popular weekly open mike at Micky's Blue Room in Alphabet City. He also plays lead guitar for other artists in the scene, and is partial to the Fender Telecaster.

Birnbaum tours North America (focusing mainly on the Northeast, South and Midwest) constantly and is preparing to record his first full-length album in 2006.

Studied ballet as a young boy.

[edit] Discography

  • Dawn, 2004 (EP)
  • Lead guitar, Tessa Perry, “Weightless", 2006, Loyalkaspar Music
  • Lead guitar, Shanna Zell, "Hurricane Season", 2005, Rose Patrol Music
  • Nashville New Music Conference Compilation, 2003 (“Forgotten”)

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NAME Birnbaum, Jeremiah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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