When Curt was 10 years old, his father, a career Navy officer, enrolled him in a Navy Junior Boxing program. After the initial training, there were to be three fights. "I won the first two handily," says Curt. "I was 57 lbs. of sheer pugilistic fury and destruction."

It was during the final match that Curt made a fateful decision. "My third opponent was a monster, a thug, obviously on steroids ... I never finished the first round. Right after a solid blow to my head, and just before my face hit the canvas, I decided I wanted to be a musician."

Two years later, in Caracas, Venezuela, Curt took his first guitar lesson. Since then, he has performed throughout the USA in coffeehouses, concerts, and festivals. For the past 16 years, he has been a guitar/mandolin/bass instructor in a music store in Portsmouth, NH. He lives in York Beach, Maine, and still refuses to return calls to Don King and the WWF.

Career highlights

Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Songwriting Finalist (2X)

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Showcase Artist (2X)

Napa Valley Folk Festival Emerging Songwriter Finalist

Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference Showcase Artist

Anderson Fair, Houston TX

Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, Dallas TX

Open Door Coffeehouse, Arlington TX

Rose Garden Coffeehouse Finalist in 9th Annual Performing Songwriter Competition

Portsmouth Folk Festival (NH)

Boston Acoustic Underground Showcase

Dick Cerri's Music Americana Showcase (VA)

Texas Firelight Theatre, Houston TX

First Night Concord (NH)

First Night Portsmouth (NH)

Hampton Beach Casino (NH)

Cocheco Arts Festival (NH)

Passim (Cambridge, MA)

Cafe Lena

Linden Tree Coffeehouse

Steeple Coffeehouse

The Mozaic Room

Stone Soup Coffeehouse

Kennebunk Coffeehouse

Rose Garden Coffeehouse

Curt has performed with …

America
Christine Lavin
Jonathan Edwards
Bill Staines
Ellis Paul
Greg Brown
Livingston Taylor
Karla Bonoff
Brooks Williams
Harvey Reid
Melanie
Greg Greenway
Catie Curtis
Chip "Wild Thing" Taylor
Jon Pousett-Dart
Albert and Gage                                                      

HOTELS

The Cliff House (12 seasons)      

The Balsams / Hilton-Garden Inn

Sheraton-Tara / The Wentworth

Anchorage By The Sea / The Ashworth

Samoset Resort / Eastland Hotel

Beachmere / Blue Sky