GW Bio Geoffrey Welchman grew up in northeast Connecticut, and first began experimenting with a 4-track reel-to-reel recorder in high school, creating songs and skits. From those beginnings he went on to work as a voice-over artist and as a singer/songwriter, releasing two critically-acclaimed albums.
Voice Over
With Speech and Voice training at New York's Circle in the Square Theater school, GW has a solid grounding in acting and presentation. After years of performing as a singer/musician, his voiceover career took center stage in 2005, when he began to record narration for online tutorials for the US Army Environmental Command (AEC). He now records and produces training narration for the high-tech company Ciena.
GW had also produced identity VOs for internet site Umbrella Radio. His easy-going baritone is now featured in his humorous podcast: the Inverse Delirium, a spoof of public radio that examines life in this American Baltimore.
Music
Musically, he blends his earliest influences: the Beatles, Sly and the Family Stone, Martin Carthy, Big Bill Broonzy, and Joan Armatrading. His inventive guitar technique mixes blues with pop and folk styles.
GW's first professional performance was the legendary Folk City in Greenwich Village, while still in college. His song "Children in Any Garden" appeared on the Fast FolkLive at the Hoot album (1987). He performed at venues like CBGB's, the SpeakEasy, Cafe Sine, the Bitter End, Kenny's Castaways, and the Village Gate. GW also created
instrumental music for the King World television show Instant Recall
in 1991, with long-time friend and collaborator Charles Brush.
He settled in Baltimore in 2001 and released first solo album, Comfort Noise, to great reviews. His second album, on which he played guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards, was One Band Man, emerged in 2007. He is a member of the Baltimore Songwriters Association (BSA).
Writer/editor
GW has written album reviews and profiles for Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, RayGun, Interview, People, Musician, Might Magazine, the original (CD-ROM) Blender, Mother Jones, the SF Chronicle, and Hits. (Notable pieces include interviews with cartoonist Art Spiegelman, singer/songwriter Aimee Mann, and performance artist Laurie Anderson, a look-back at the career of rock trailblazer Suzi Quatro, and a RS lead review of the Rollins Band album Weight.)
He has worked as a technical editor for over 10 years, with special experience in the field of telecom web-based training.
