Charlie Zahm
Charlie Zahm is an American singer and musician who performs Celtic, maritime, and traditional American music. He sings in a baritone voice and plays guitar, tin whistle, bodhran, five‑string banjo, mandolin, flute, and pennywhistle. Born in 1965 in Michigan, he now lives in Pennsylvania.
He began as a John Denver fan, but today he mainly performs Scottish, Irish, and early American traditional songs. He has also recorded other music, including a hymns album in 2009 and a country album in 2013. Zahm often works with Tad Marks, a fiddler who formerly played with the Del McCoury Band. He learned banjo at 14. After college, he toured Europe and Japan with Up With People. He has performed around the world, from large concert halls to the hills of Scotland. In 2014 he played for U.S. troops at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Memorial Day. He has appeared in two DVDs, Out of the Mist (2002) and Charlie Zahm: An Evening of Classic Melodies (2007), and he was in the movie Gettysburg — Three Days of Destiny.
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