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David Coffin
American musician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Coffin is an American traditional folk musician specializing in early music and maritime music, based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States.[1] He is the song leader for the Revels music programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2][3][4][5][6] He also presents music enrichment programs for schools throughout New England. One program is based on the history of the recorder, and the other is called Life at Sea: A Voyage in Song.
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Born | Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States |
Occupation(s) | Folk musician |
Years active | 1980–present |
Coffin has a bass-baritone voice and plays various types of concertinas, recorders, and whistles, in addition to archaic instruments like the shawm, rackett, or gemshorn.[7] He comes from a musical background: his father, Reverend William Sloane Coffin, studied to be a concert pianist with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, his grandfather was pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and his great-grandfather was Polish conductor Emil Młynarski.