This program is being funded with a grant by the Halifax County Arts Council, supported by the North Arts Council, which is a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Miller is described as one of the premier autoharpists in the world, and is an accomplished folklorist, historian, musicologist, and song-collector, amassing a repertoire of more than 5,000 songs.

Miller accompanies his baritone voice with finger-picking acoustic guitar and autoharp melodies.

Traveling 70,000 miles each year, the 21st-century troubadour has performed in concert halls from the Everglades to the Arctic Circle.

In the press kit from his website, it is noted more than 1 million students have attended his Singing Through History school assembly programs.

Pete Daigle, editor of Autoharp Quarterly magazine, called him “the busiest autoharp player in the world.”

George Winston says, “Adam Miller is one of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.”

One reviewer wrote of his performance, “It will charm even the most die-hard iPod-loving kids or reluctant significant-others.”

Frank Hamilton, a former member of The Weavers says, “He’s doing a real service for folk music: defending the Treasury of American Tradition.”

Miller’s folksongs and ballads are the songs of America’s heritage; a window into the soul of our nation in its youth. “I have always had a great interest in how folksongs travel through history, and how history travels through folksongs,” he explains.

Immersed in the oral tradition, Miller is mostly self-taught, and learns just about everything by ear.

He began his lifelong pursuit of collecting old songs while still in grade school. Armed with an audio-graphic memory and an uncommonly good ear for melody, his childhood ambition was to learn every song he heard.

Miller’s six CDs receive airplay across North America and Europe.