Charlie Zahm is an American singer and player of

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, maritime and traditional American music. Zahm sings baritone, and plays guitar,

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, and the bodhran, among other instruments.

Personal life

Zahm was born in 1965 in

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. He now resides in Pennsylvania.

Music

Beginning as a John Denver devotee, Charlie Zahm now primarily performs Scottish, Irish, and early American traditional music. He has also branched out into other genres, recording a CD of hymns in 2009 and a country album in 2013. Zahm plays guitar, five-string banjo, mandolin, flute and pennywhistle. Zahm has recorded several albums composed entirely of self-written songs, mostly in a traditional Celtic style. Many of Zahm's studio albums and concerts feature former Del McCoury Band fiddler

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. Zahm learned to play the banjo, his first instrument, at the age of 14. After attending college, he toured in Europe and Japan with

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. Zahm has continued to play shows across the world ever since, from large concert halls to the bonnie hills of Scotland. In 2014 he traveled to

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to play on Memorial Day for the members of the US Military at the

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Albums

*''Life of the Rover'' (2023) *''Sing Me a Song of a Lad that Is Gone'' (2018) *''Angels We Have Heard on High'' (2016) *''Far Away and Across the Sea''(2015) *''Nothin' Like the South'' (2013) *''Songs of Highlands, Islands and Home!'' (2011) *''Precious Memories and Other Special Songs of Faith'' (2009) *''Best of the Early Years'' (2009) *''Recent Journeys'' (2008) *''The Immortal Memory - A Tribute to Scottish Poet Robert Burns'' (2008) *''Lighthouse on the Shore: An Evening of Classic Melodies with Charlie Zahm'' (2007) *''Among the Heather!'' (2005) *''The American Scrapbook'' (2003) *''Scotland's Heroes'' (2003) *''Songs for When the Sun Goes Down'' (200

*''Out of the Mist'' (2002) *''Americana'' (2002) *''The White Snows of Winter'' (2001) *''A Walk in the Irish Rain'' (2001) *''The Celtic Balladeer'' (1999) *''Festival Favorites II The Glory of the Isles'' (1998) *''Under the Great Northern Stars'' (1997) *''Stormy Winds Do Blow The Maritime Collection'' (1997) *''Festival Favorites'' (1997) *''A Summer's Morning Rare'' (1995) *''Charlie Zahm Live The Celtic Concert'' (1995) *''A Song in the Aire'' (1994) *''Ye'll Tak the High Road'' (1994) *''Songs of Ireland, Scotland and the Sea'' (1992)

DVDs

Charlie Zahm has also been featured in two DVDs: ''Out of the Mist'' in 2002 and ''Charlie Zahm: An Evening of Classic Melodies'' in 2007. He was also in the movie ''Gettysburg — Three Days of Destiny''.

References

External links

Charlie Zahm's website
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