DAN WALSH
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Dan Walsh of Byrnesville
made four records for the Library of Congress as one of the "singing miners". He was interviewed for a newspaper article in 1959 regarding those
recordings.
Dan began working in
the coal mines when he was 9 years old. He worked the mines for 50 years but took a few years off to sing in the motion picture theaters. Dan told
the newspaper reporter
that he "sang solos and those funny illustrated songs where the people would join in the last chorus." He sang in the Comerford theaters in Wilkes-Barre
as well as the old Chamberlin
Houses in Shamokin and Lock Haven, and Jamestown, NY and many other places. He also sang at churches.
Dan took only three singing
lessons and the French professor that taught him those lessons told him "you're only wasting my time and your time". However, Dan did become an accomplished singer winning medals
for two successive years at the Pennsylvania
Folk Festival at Bucknell University. He can also be heard on the recently released CD "Songs & Ballads of the Anthracite Miners" which can be purchased on Amazon.com
Dan gave
up professional singing in 1959 due to severe asthma but his voice lives on thanks to the Library of Congress.
This summary
about Dan Walsh contributed by his great Granddaughter Patrica Logic
Click here to return to Byrnesville index page
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