Rod MacDonald In CONCERT: North Main Street – Alburgh, VT 05440 (Next to the American Legion). Limited Seating

As an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator, Rod MacDonald was a "big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs", performing at the Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the "Songwriter's Exchange" at the Cornelia Street Cafe. He is perhaps best known for his songs "American Jerusalem", about the "contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan" (Sing Out!), "A Sailor's Prayer", "Coming of the Snow", "Every Living Thing", and "My Neighbors in Delray". His songs have been covered by Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Four Bitchin' Babes, Jonathan Edwards, Garnet Rogers, Joe Jencks, and others.
Since 1995 MacDonald has lived in south Florida, where his cd, "Later that Night" was named "Best Local Cd of 2014" by The Palm Beach Post and reached the top ten in national roots music charts. Known for both his musicality and songs about current events, he's "A poet with a lot on his mind who has never allowed himself to make points at the expense of making music."…..The Boston Globe.
Rod has appeared and performed on stage with fellow artists, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Odetta, Tom Paxton, the Violent Femmes, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Dave Van Ronk, Emmylou Harris, Richie Havens, Ani DiFranco, Tom Chapin, Jack Hardy and David Massengill. He remains active, throughout the year playing and touring most often in Florida, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Pacific Northwest, New York, New England and Canada.
In addition to playing music, Rod also teaches "Music Americana" in Florida Atlantic University's Lifelong Learning program, where he was named Distinguished Faculty Member in 2012. In 2014 his first novel, The Open Mike, about a young man in the open mike scene of Greenwich Village, was published by Archway Publishing.

His latest cd "Beginning Again" was released on Blue Flute Music in 2018.

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