Peter Siegel

acoustic guitar, mandolin, ukulele

Peter is the founder of the genre-bending band collaboration The Gaslight Tinkers and is active in the traditional and world music scene nationally. Growing up in the Hudson Valley, folk music and dance were a key part of his life. At 11, after his uncle took him to see Andres Segovia, he begged his parents for classical guitar lessons. As a teen he studied in the Jazzmobile education program in Harlem and continued to pick away at the banjo and mandolin on the side. Peter has spent the last few decades working with and sharing the stage with folks like Pete Seeger, Jay Unger and Molly Mason, Judy Collins, Utah Phillips, and Noel Paul Stookey of Peter Paul and Mary. He recorded with Pete Seeger on the Grammy award winning album “Tomorrow’s Children” and his works are published  in Sing Out! magazine and the fiddle tune compilation, The Portland Collection. His family recording Peace Place won a Parents Choice Award in 2012. He currently teaches K-5 music in the Keene School District.