Rick Spencer and Dawn Indermuehle
Selected Performance Credits
Rick Spencer & Dawn Indermuehle
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
The Loomis Institute, Windsor, CT
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, CT
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
New London County Historical Society, New London, CT
Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Noble and Cooley Center for Historic Preservation, Granville, MA
The Old State House, Hartford, CT
Storrowton Village, East Springfield, MA
Road Scholar
Otis Library, Norwich, CT
Bristol CT Public Library
East Lyme CT Public Library
Trumbull CT Public Library
Milford CT Public Library
Rick Spencer
-University of North Carolina, Greensboro
-Chicago Maritime Festival
-Halifax, NS Harbour Festival
-US Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal
-National Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA
-Boston Museum of Fine Arts
-Concert and music festival appearances throughout the US, in
France, England, Canada, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and
Germany from 1986 to the present
-Hundreds of appearances for audiences in folk music concert venues,
schools, libraries, historical societies, museums, etc.
Musical Performance:
-Extensive experience with a capella and accompanied singing, solo and ensembles.
-Instrumentalist and vocalist with the groups
The Jovial Crew
The Band of Steady Habits
LongSplice
Locomotive Shipwreck
The Electric Trains
Ask Your Father
Forebitter
-Proficient on: Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Dulcimer, Concertina
-Vocal Range: Tenor
Live Television and Radio Appearances:
-ABC Good Morning America – On air interview and musical performance
-National Public Radio All Things Considered interview with Noah Adams
Historical or Documentary Television Appearances:
-PBS “Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World” A film by Ric Burns
Worked as music consultant and portrayed 19th century whaleman
-NBC Dateline NBC, “The Revenge of the Whale.” Portrayal of shipwrecked
sailor
-History Channel. Modern Marvels, “Loading Docks.” Portrayal of shipboard
cargo loading crew member
-CPTV Mark Twain’s Hartford. Portrayal of Twain’s friend and co-author
Charles Dudley Warner
-A&E DeToqueville’s America. Portrayal of shipboard musician and sailor
-PBS The American Experience. Portrayal of shipboard sailor
Theater Experience:
-Script writer and actor for Mystic Seaport’s Lantern Light Tours
-Composer and lyricist for the musical play Run to Elysia by Nicholas Checker
-Musical Director and accompanist for Run to Elysia. Avery Point Playhouse, Groton, CT
-Portrayed the character Ivan in staged readings of Eugene O’Neill’s sea trilogy, Mystic Seaport
-Portrayed villain John Knipe in The 10th Voyage by Ann Peabody, Mystic Seaport
Recording Credits:
Producer, musical arranger, recording and remix engineer and session musician for
Sea Songs and Chanteys, Rick Spencer
The Days When We Were Young, Rick Spencer
Waiting For Me, Rick Spencer
Sea Songs and Chanteys, Rick Spencer
Love’s Labor, Donna Glover and Rick Spencer
Kindred Spirits, The WindLasses
From the Shore, David Littlefield
Contentment, Rick Spencer
Session musician for Where We’ve Been, Ask Your Father
Session musician for The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelson, Jerry Bryant
Session musician for Songs of the Sailor, with the Mystic Seaport Chanteymen
Session musician for Always Wecome, Marc Bernier
Recording artist and member of the quartet “Forebitter” on the recordings
Link of Chain. Forebitter Sings Songs of the Sea, Volume I
Voyages. Forebitter Sings Songs of the Sea, Volume II
American Sea Chanteys
Unmooring
On the Ran-Tan