Adam Miller
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Photo by Sonia Lovewell
An artist whose kind has dwindled to an endangered species, Adam Miller is a renowned old-school American troubadour and an award-winning storyteller. One of the premier autoharpists in the world, he is an accomplished folklorist and song collector who has accumulated a remarkable repertoire of more than 5,000 songs. A masterful entertainer who never fails to get his audience singing along, Miller accompanies his rich, resonant baritone voice with lively fingerpicking acoustic guitar and stunningly beautiful autoharp melodies. His time-honored traditional ballads are a breath of fresh air, evoking a bygone era when most music was homemade. Skillfully interweaving folksongs and the stories behind them with the elegance of a documentary filmmaker, he has distinguished himself as one of the great interpreters of American folksongs and a mesmerizing teller of tales. And he is that rare performer who appeals to audiences of all ages.
• “Between these ears are more songs than any of us have ever heard,” said Keith Anglemyer, emcee at the Walnut Valley Festival.
• George Winston calls him “one of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.”
• NPR called him “a master of the autoharp.”
• A Walnut Valley Festival reviewer observed, “Adam Miller holds his audience spellbound without a lot of trappings. It’s just him, his autoharp and guitar, and his signature panama hat.”