David has performed throughout New England since 1980. His venues range fro… Read Full Bio ↴David has performed throughout New England since 1980. His venues range from concert halls and coffeehouses to schools, radio, and museums. He has performed for weddings, birthdays, memorials, festivals, bonfires - you name it. He is equally adept firing up a crowd to sing, or at playing music in the background to create atmosphere (often during the same occasion!) Widely know for his rich baritone voice, his impressive collection of musical instruments includes concertinas, recorders, penny-whistles, bombards (loud Breton double reeds), gemshorns, cornamuse, shawm, rauschphieffe - or, as he explains, "generally anything that requires a lot of hot air." Many of these instruments are used in his interactive school enrichment program: Music from the King's Court: Exploring the Early Winds.

At the heart of David's work is traditional and contemporary folk music. He draws on vocal and instrumental music from North America as well as England, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany. David also has an extensive collection of songs from the Maritime tradition. Sea-chanteys, ballads and the songs of the sailors comprise his main repertoire, though he still will rise to an occasion to perform his favorite Baroque recorder sonatas.

David has performed with the Cambridge-based Revels since 1980 as a singer, instrumentalist and, since 1991, as Master of Ceremonies. As of 2009, with the Christmas and Spring performances combined, he has appeared in over 50 different Revels productions, celebrating the solstices through the traditions of many cultures.

In 2000, David quit his "day job" to become a full-time performer, bringing original Enrichment Programs to schools throughout New England. In 2007, he was named Director of Education for Boston Early Music Festival. His one-of-a-kind presentation highlighting period instruments, Music from the King's Court: Exploring the Early Winds, highlights the history of the recorder and related period wind instruments. David's dynamically interactive performance has inspired novice musicians and "wowed" more advanced students, in hundreds of schools. Life at Sea: A Voyage in Song is the no less lively program based on an imaginary whaling voyage that gets audiences singing authentic, historical sea songs as they learn about mariners' lives long ago and far from home.

David also provides rollicking group tours of Boston Harbor for private parties, meetings and celebrations. You pick the day, time and season, and make the sailing arrangements; we promise an unforgettable educational experience in song and story. Suitable for all ages.

During the summer months David leads 200 inner-city children a day on boat trips through Boston Harbor to George's and Spectacle Islands for a day of history, music, fun. It's a mind-broadening experience of Boston's own harbor and maritime history. Many of the participating children have never been on a boat, let alone walk on sand or swim in salt-water. For more information about the All Access Boston Harbor programs, please visit http://www.savetheharbor.org/index.php/all-access-boston-harbor

To date, David has recorded four solo CDs and has participated on numerous other recording projects both vocally and as an instrumentalist. His latest CD is scheduled for release Fall 2009.

Lowlands
David Coffin Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Lowlands' by these artists:

Adrian Borland Put your feelings away That's what this city seems to say Yo…
Alina Hardin He came from the lowlands A farm in Tennessee that took…
Alura Isolated The world I knew shows a different hue Complicated …
Anne Briggs I dreamt a dream the other night Ch. Lowlands, lowlands, awa…
Bonny Light Horseman Eric D. Johnson Josh Kaufman Anaïs Mitchell I dreamed a dream the other night Lowlands away, lowlands aw…
Chris Pureka We were crawling through valleys, yeah we were swimming in…
Denice Franke I'm going to San Marcos Where the skies are so bright And…
Father Sculptor I kept myself to myself, Hands down by my sides, cm I…
Gillian Welch Saw a girl on the street from my home Like a…

Joan Baez We sailed out of Dunmore Michelmas gone by Cowhides and wool…
Little Black Bird Dark sight tonight There′s no light Do you feel safe from yo…
Odetta Lowlands, lowlands away my John My old mother wrote to me …
Ozark Mountain Daredevils I heard a song that was taught to a baby And…
Roscoe When the feelings rise I don't feel nothing Other than the l…
Ted Alevizos & Joan Baez & Bill Wood We sailed out of Dunmore Michelmas gone by Cowhides and wool…
The Dream Academy The low pressure band had broken up but not let…
The Gourds I saddled me a wounded priest Rode him wet through…
The Men of the Robert Shaw Chorale Lowlands, lowlands, away my John Oh my own mother she wrote…
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils I heard a song that was taught to a baby And…
The Stranglers Driving through the lowlands with the rain upon my face…

We have lyrics for these tracks by David Coffin:

Roll the Old Chariot Along Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any…
Rolling Down To Old Maui It′s a damn tough life full of toil and strife We…
Safe in the Harbour Have you stood by the ocean on a diamond-hard morning And…
The Bonnie Ship The Diamond The Diamond is a ship, me lads To the Davis Strait…
The Chemical Worker's Song And it′s go boys, go They'll time your every breath And ever…
The Old Virginia Lowlands Low Ye Tars of Columbia, and listen to my song; It's of…
The Old Virginia Lowlands, Low Ye Tars of Columbia, and listen to my song; It's of…

The Tree Song Oak and Ash and Thorn Of all the trees that grow so fair Ol′ England to…

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