David was born and raised in Wisconsin and has also lived in Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota. He travels all over the US singing his songs and has been called "The George Carlin of Folk Music." He's known as a performer and clinician, and has won a number of very prestigious writing contests. He plays mostly house concerts and concert venues, and also spends time promoting the work of independent singers and songwriters through his radio program, Northern Roots Radio. He's a pretty good cook.

In this section of the BIO, you'll find out where Dave has played, some of the more famous people he's performed with, and some of the awards he's gotten. It's meant to shine some of the light generated by others directly onto him, without his having to do a lot of extra work, or really, any other work.

He's played at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, for example, and at the Kerrville Music Festival in Kerrville, Texas. These days, he plays mostly house concerts. He's shared the stage with people like Juice Newton, Leon Russell, Rik Emmett, Lou and Peter Berryman, Michael Smith, and Pat Donohue. He was once mistaken for George Winston at a bookstore in Milwaukee. He has won the Kerrville New Folk award, as well as songwriting awards at the South Florida Folk Festival, the Minnesota Folk Festival, and others.