Charley Groth

The Music Man: Singer - Songwriter - Instrumentalist - Entertainer

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CHARLEY GROTH has been a musician all of his life. He tours coast to coast and border to border. A dynamic singer, strong multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and teller of tales, his music is a potent brew of Americana ingredients, including real country, folk, blues, swing/traditional jazz, ragtime, bluegrass, original songs and instrumentals, and more. Charley’s performances are filled with good music, well played and sung. In the audience, I felt a part of the evening—happy to be there! Madeline MacNeil, entertainer and recording artist, Virginia. Very much at ease onstage, he’s an energetic and experienced entertainer with the kind of presentation that makes his music, humor, and stories vividly memorable and appealing to a broad spectrum of listeners in venues large and small. Charley sings in a warm and expressive baritone. A noted guitar flatpicker (hot "fiddle" tunes like Cotton Patch Rag and Rights of Man Hornpipe, swing numbers like Little Red Wagon, many more tunes and types of music) and fingerpicker (Merle Travis's Farewell My Blue Bell and others, his own Cactus Stomp and Kansas City Ramble, many more), he plays in several styles and tunings. He's also a very accomplished player of mandolin, piano, Autoharp, Dobro, banjo, and other instruments. A genial man, he's very outgoing, almost always in a good mood, and ever-generous in making sure members of his musical groups get to shine in performance. Charley Groth really knows his way around a guitar! Tex Schutz, noted nationally touring musician/recording artist and acoustic stage host at the South Texas Music Festival 2003. A veteran recording artist, Charley has played on a host of albums and has made several of his own. He has appeared on a multitude of radio and television broadcasts. He lives in Florida, where he is producer and director of Florida’s annual Sunshine State Acoustic Music Camp, has written and presented a series of road shows for the Florida Humanities Council, and appears each year in the famed Florida Folk Festival. He produces and directs the touring American Roots Revival. Charley travels extensively each year, bringing his shows to a wide variety of audiences across the country. In the picture below he is shown entertaining a crowd at the South Texas Music Festival away down in the southernmost tip of Texas, February 2003.

It gives us great pleasure to be able to recommend Charley Groth… whom we’ve had here at our house concert series on several occasions... He is equally (and expertly) at home on guitar, mandolin, dobro, upright bass, autoharp, and piano, making him a highly versatile entertainer. Charley was extremely well-received here at “the Oaks,” and we heartily endorse him for the solid-gold performance he can provide at any venue. Ellie Daulton & Doug Travers, producers, Under The Oaks House Concerts, Florida. Charley is the writer of Florida Moon, a song often covered by other artists and selected as theme music for television broadcasts of the Florida legislature. Other well-known songs he's written include I Would Do It All Again, Grandpa Flatpicked, and After All These Years. Among his many instrumental compositions are All American Ride, Kansas City Ramble, The Tickler and Friendship Waltz. (For more about Charley's songs and instrumentals, see the Compositions section of the web site.) Charley’s songs speak of that which is within us all—the capacity for love, the bittersweet sadness we sometimes find in life, the struggle to overcome, the enjoyment of pleasures... You'll find yourself humming the tune and remembering the phrasing of the words. Bonnie Hamilton, journalist, New Mexico. Writing prose and poetry also interests Charley. He is the author of the book Words and Music, and he has written articles and columns on music for several music magazines. Selections from his writings on music are archived in the Library of Congress. Your tape was good. I really enjoyed your songs! Janette Carter, The Carter Family Fold, Hiltons, Virginia. I think Woody would have liked your songs and your music, Charley. Marjorie (Mrs. Woody) Guthrie, New York.

Here, in 2001,Charley performs with a group on the main stage of the renowned Florida Folk Festival, one of the nation's oldest and largest. He has appeared in the festival for almost twenty consecutive years, and took part in the 2002 Fiftieth Anniversary production of the famed event.

Doc Watson, Merle Travis, the Country Gentlemen, Bill Monroe, Charlie Louvin, Patsy Montana, Tom T. Hall, Ricky Skaggs, Jim and Jesse McReynolds, Vassar Clements, Jett Williams (Hank's daughter). legendary Cajun singer D. L. Menard, Boys of the Lough, the Balfa Brothers, Guy Clark, cowboy storyteller Glenn Ohrlin, prairie songster Bob Everhart, Jim Ringer, and Ray Stevens are among the many luminaries with whom Charley has done shows and shared bills over the years.

In this picture, Charley (far right) performs in a 2003 grandstand show with Jett Williams, daughter of the great Hank Williams, along with (left to right) Harriett Andersen, Rick Andersen, Lee Muller, and Jay Kelly. Photograph by Dustin Hunt.

I have met many entertainers but none more versatile than Charley Groth. His musical virtuosity and knowledge allow him to adapt his talents to many types of presentations. It was so nice to meet him and have him on the Radio Reunion shows. Nadine Dreager, producer/director, Radio Reunion Shows, Iowa. He is the consummate entertainer. Jan Milner, mountain dulcimer virtuoso, singer, and recording artist, introducing Charley at a concert.

If you are interested in booking Charley Groth, or have questions or need additional information about anything on this site, e-mail Rainbow Booking at rainbowbooking@hotmail.com (click on [Contact/Booking] in top menu, or use your own e-mail service). You may also call Ms. Leslie Wasson at (727) 433-1139 before 10 PM EST. If you would like to be added to Charley Groth's mailing list, fill out and submit the form below. Charley will always be glad to hear from you, and he's always interested in new and exciting projects--so be in touch! ----

Charley Groth plays and Recommends AUGUSTINO guitars.

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