2011 - Listed on Pennsylvania Humanities Council State Speaker

2009 - Pennsylvania House of Representatives Recognition Award

2009 - Accepted to Martin Guitar Artist Program

2009 - Release of coal cd: "Heritage and Coal Mining Songs of Northeast Pennsylvania".

2006 - Philadelphia Folk Festival

2006 - Co-Producer of the Mauch Chunk Folk Festival

2006 - New Jersey Folk Festival

2003 - First tour of Scotland. Returning again in 2006.

2004 - Hosted the 3rd Annual Forksville Folk Festival, Forksville, PA

2004 - Selected for Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour Roster 2004.

2003 - Chosen to play at the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

2003 - Produced and performed on the CD"Into My Life" by the artist Jerry Haines.

2003 - Hosted the 2nd Annual Forksville Folk Festival, Forksville, PA

2003 - Completed music for an upcoming BBC Wales documentary called "The Welsh in America".

1999 - CD "Socket to Me" now being distributed by Elderly Instruments, Lansing, Michigan

1999 - Release of "Banjo Tramps"- preserving traditional American Claw-Hammer Banjo

1997 - Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources includes "The Ballad of Glen Onoko" in their Lehigh Legacy Soujourn book.

1994 - Release of "Country Living Room" CD

1991 - Release of "Socket To Me" CD. Dirty Linen Magazine of Baltimore proclaims, "an exceptional independent recording".

1991 - Signed to Mountain Laurel Records, which has distributions in 6 foreign countries.

1991 - Finalist in Kerrville, Texas Folk festival highlighting 40 original artists from the United States and Canada.

1989 - Song "There's Coal in Summit Hill" used by Switchback Committee for Carbon County televised documentary.

1988 - Winner of Pennsylvania Invitational for Performing Artist

1986 - release of "The Ballad of Glen Onoko" album. Later inducted into the Library of Congress in Washington, C.D.

1980 - helped form bluegrass trio "High Strung" which released "High Strung" album. Top ten of local favorite public radio stations.