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Dave Ruch (born November 8, 1964) is an American performer and teaching artist working with K-12 students and multi-generational audiences across much of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Ruch specializes in educational programming, performing over two hundred concerts, lectures, workshops and distance learning programs each year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dave Ruch )〕 ==Biography== Ruch began playing guitar in 1980.〔http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n5/dave_ruch〕 After playing semi-professionally in Buffalo NY and Washington DC from 1982-1992, Ruch became a full-time musician in November 1992, initially teaching music and performing regionally from his home base in Buffalo. He also performed nationally during this period with musicians such as David Gans, Virginia and the Blue Dots, and members of the band moe. Ruch began his arts-in-education career in 1995, developing curriculum-based music programs for K-12 students around social studies content areas. He continues to work in sixty to seventy schools each year as a performer and teaching artist. In 2014, Ruch developed a series of virtual field trips and online cultural arts programs for the school market. Ruch has an abiding interest in the traditional and historical music of his home state of New York,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York’s Folk Music Found )〕 having logged thousands of research hours〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dave Ruch finds songs to keep )〕 and dozens of recording sessions with older “heritage” musicians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Musician/educator Dave Ruch remembers Ermina Pincombe )〕 He was appointed to the New York Council for the Humanities’ “Speakers in the Humanities” program in 2006 and stayed on through the program’s demise in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dave Ruch )〕 He was project director for the Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) award-winning〔http://tauny.org/post/67/music-website-wins-award〕 “W is for the Woods: Traditional Adirondack Music and Music Making” website in 2009, and music director and concert host, producer and musician for TAUNY’s 2013 “Songs to Keep” project. Ruch was featured in the nationally syndicated 2014 “Songs to Keep” documentary from Mountain Lake PBS, which went on to win a New England Emmy Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mountain Lake PBS Adirondack Music Documentary Honored with an Emmy! )〕 Ruch founded The Canal Street String Band in 2010 in Buffalo NY. The group was named to the New York State Presenters Network artist roster in 2014-15, receiving funding for six residency projects across the state.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2011-15 TOURING ARTISTS )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dave Ruch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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