From The Schenectady Daily Gazette

Dan Berggren is happy with his life and has very few regrets. But as a young boy growing up in a small rural town in upstate New York, he wishes someone had enlightened him about the wonderful intersection of music and history to be found in the Adirondack Mountains.

“It seems a shame to me, because I spent three years in college and three years overseas before I came home and discovered, quite by accident, that there was such a thing as Adirondack folk music,” said Berggren, a retired professor from the State University of New York at Fredonia, who in the past decade has become one of the Capital Region’s most popular folk musicians.

“Part of my hometown of Minerva is called ‘Irishtown,’ and what I plan to do is to tell some stories around the songs I’ve written,” said Berggren, who was born in Brooklyn and lives in Ballston Spa but spent much of his youth in the Adirondacks.

“I guess I’ll be telling stories through the introductions of my songs, but it will mostly be my music. I play tradition-based folk music, so I’ll highlight some of the traditional songs from the Adirondacks as well as some I’ve written myself.”

Read the entire story (from The Daily Gazette, 2015) here