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Biography
Chuck Schaeffer, the first of four children, grew up
in Whitehouse Station, NJ
listening to obscure one-hit wonders, country tunes, Jimmy Buffett and folk music on
the family jukebox at his grandparent's bar, while his fellow high school and college alumni of the 80’s and
90’s were listening to big hair rock bands, club music and heavy
metal.
He studied the piano at the age of eleven. He was given his first
guitar the following Christmas, but didn't pursue the instrument until
college, during which he started playing and singing at parties.
His guitar skills developed further during a long period of
rehabilitation following major knee
surgery. He later studied classical guitar under Alice Artzt of Princeton NJ,
where he established his musical stylings.
He joined the Folk Project
of Northern New Jersey and later the Bucks County Folk Song Society. With
the help of many of their members, and with much cooperation from the Raritan Music Center and
Third Reformed Church of Raritan, he successfully organized a weekly
cruise night / concert festival in his former hometown of Raritan NJ, during which he had
the opportunity to work with many terrific entertainers and musicians,
including Jason Wilber, lead
guitarist for folk legend John Prine.
He later relocated to Bucks
County, PA,
where he joined a contemporary rock cover band; who later
encouraged him to write and perform his own original music. He will perform over 100 gigs and
showcases in 2008.
He fulfilled one lifelong dream of visiting the Grand Ole Opry for the first time in
2006, and looks forward to the opportunity of returning there one day as
a performer to fulfill another, performing his song “My Baseball
Videos” with Tim McGraw with his bandmates Bob Dreher and Tim West,
Heartlands Hayride performers Ann Brown & Bill Brandon, producers
Alex & Amy Otey, his buddies Rick & Boz, and the man that gave
him the Fender 12-string guitar that he plays today, John Harris.
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