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During the Blizzard of '78 Chip first gig with Spider John Koerner

Working at Environmental Research & Technology

Paul moves to Cambridge to from Newville, PA. to be a grad student at Harvard.

Shoot your Radio released (see Nu Classix program)

NAIRD - National Association of Independent Record Distributors & Manufacturers
Indie Award 1985

Honorable Mention to Rounder for Old Time Music in the category of String Music
by the Chicken Chokers & Horseflies

This award is presented in grateful acknowledgment of your exceptional contribution to the world of creative independent music.

Chokers at the Newport Folk Festival - with Alison Krauss, Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Hot Rize

Program Billing:

The Chicken Chokers are a modern reincarnation of a Southern old-time dance band from the early part of this century. Their music can be hot and rocking or funky and rolling with a twist of weirdness thrown in for good measure. The sound is a blend of old-time melodies on the fiddle, harmonica, banjo combined with a guitar, banjo, uke, bass rhythm section! The straight-ahead Choker vocal stylings clearly separate their old-time sound from the manicured sound of bluegrass music.

Standard Times, North Kingstown, RI 8/14/86, F.Johnette Frick
Newport Folk Festival offers rousing variety

The festival's lead-off group, The Chicken Chokers, earned their name from their particularly offbeat reincarnation of an old-fashioned Southern dance band, with a nod to another of their influences in a fine rendition of Michael Hurley's "Water [Train]".

Nu Classix - An Evening of Concert Music Premieres
Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA

Reclining Nude
A piece of music Chad wrote for 2 clarinets, 2 trumpets, glockenspiel,celeste,marimba,piano, violin, cello, bass and Hillbilly fiddle.

For centuries the artist has painted flesh, religion, dreams, the world around him. Like the artist, I've painted a landscape, only a musical one. My landscape involves a large number of contrasting musical ideas in order to express the intense, surrealistic nature of the real world around me.