ADAM MILLER
Autoharp Virtuoso

Adam is an award-winning folksinger and virtuoso autoharpist.  He has been a featured performer at the Claremont Folk Festival, the California Traditional Music Society’s Summer Solstice Festival, the Berkeley Free Folk Festival, The Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, the Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention, San Diego’s Adams Avenue Roots Festival, the California Autoharp Gathering, the Willamette Valley Autoharp Gathering, and the Mount Laurel Autoharp Gathering.

A native of Northern California, Adam grew up a few blocks from historic Cannery Row on the Monterey Bay.  As a child he listened to the recordings of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Oscar Brand, Cisco Houston, Marias and Miranda, and the Weavers.

At the age of 11 his parents took him to hear folksinger Sam Hinton at the Grange Hall in Big Sur.  He credits Hinton as his mentor and his greatest inspiration. 

Miller began playing finger-style acoustic guitar at the age of seventeen. He has been playing the autoharp since 1994. He is a nationally recognized presenter of folklore and folk music programs and regularly performs at schools, libraries and museums.

Adam plays both diatonic and chromatic autoharps manufactured by Fladmark Woodworks, Orthey Instruments and the Oscar Schmidt Company.  He uses only his fingernails for picks.  He has recorded two CDs of folksongs, The Orphan Train and Other Reminiscences, Along Came a Giant and Wild Birds.
 

"Adam is not only a master of the autoharp with impeccable taste, but is also about the nicest guy one could ever hope to meet."
- Sam Hinton, Folksinger and Author


Photo by Sonia Lovewell