Matt Turk is a singer/songwriter,"Matt Turk’s ‘Cold Revival’ offers riveting tunes". Daily Freeman. David Malachowski multi-instrumentalist"Music Review: Matt Turk - 'Cold Revival'". Seattle PI"Matt Turk releases 'Cold Revival'". Celebrity CafeBy Chelsea Lewis, 8/3/2014 and veteran performer"RUST Magazine 2014 Album of the Year" Rust Magazine. by Eric Petersen on November 19, 2014 based in the Hudson ValleyMike Hammer, "Aztec Two-Step Struts Their Stuff At The City Winery!" Downtown Magazine NYC, March 13, 2013 in New York State. He performs around the world both as a bandleader and an acoustic folk troubadour.
Early life and education Turk grew up in Westchester County, New York and attended New York University, graduating Cum Laude with a B.A. in history and a minor in religious studies.
Career At NYU he formed the band, The Hour, which played alongside Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews and the Spin Doctors. His band was a regular act at the Arrowhead Ranch, a music venue promoted by rock impresario Bill Graham.
In June 1992, Turk teamed up with Pete Seeger as part of The Street Singers, a group that taught folk songs to schoolchildren and adults in and around New York City. Turk's time with Seeger, and his year and a half stint working for God's Love We Deliver, delivering food to folks homebound with AIDS, led him to write songs about social justice.
Turk recorded with Pete SeegerMarisa LaScala, Q&A with Westchester Resident and Musician Matt Turk, Westchester Magazine, May 2013. and opened for Judy Collins, the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, Fiona Apple, and The Doobie Brothers.
Turk has created a number of solo albums, and performed on a number of others. His 2010 recording, American Preservation, produced by David Dobkin, placed at Number #20 on the folk/dj charts and is a collection of traditional standards and classics, ranging from Roy Acuff to Pink Floyd, and from Taj Mahal to T. Rex. His version of "America the Beautiful" with Gaby Moreno has been called "arguably the definitive acoustic version" by Music News Nashville.Janet Goodman, Matt Turk – American Preservation Music News Nashville, May 13, 2014
Turk's 2014 album, Cold Revival, attracted a number of positive reviews, including being named "Best album of 2014" by RUST magazine. As of 2020 Matt serves as the music director at Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills New Jersey
Selected discography Solo Cold Revival"Troubador/Busker Matt Turk Cold Revival Album Review" The Noise Beneath the Apple. Heather Jackson February 9, 2015"Matt Turk – Cold Revival" Music News Nashville, September 12, 2014 by Dan Harr American Preservation, 2010 Fred Claus Soundtrack, Warner Brothers Records, 2007 The Fog of War, 2007 special guest Pete Seeger Washington Arms, 2006 What Gives, 2002Joe Viglione, What Gives, Review by Joe Viglione All Music"What Gives Album Review" Virgin Radio Turktunes, 1999
Session Musician Pete Seeger The Storm King, 2013 *Grammy Nominated Pete Seeger, Lorre Wyatt A More Perfect Union 2012 Hope Machine, Big Green Hope Machine, 2009
Band Member Gillen & Turk, Back's to the Wall, 2008 Mandolin Caravan, Desert Soul, 2003 The Hour, Songs of Sweden, 1992 The Hour, Fricker-Nicker Sessions, 1991 The Hour, Hold Back The Reins, 1989
References
Monique Avakian, GREAT VIBE, Uber-Diverse, Port Chester is Not That Far, Let's Hear it for Matt Turk's Band Patch, August 22, 2013.
External links Official Website