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CHARLIE MAGUIRE
MUSICIAN SONGWRITER

Charlie has performed programs for a wide range of audiences. 

He's really great at reading the room and engaging the audience.
—Laurel C., Program Director, Hamline Midway   

 

Fantastic work on the road and at all the libraries Charlie! I've enjoyed your updates, and appreciate all the media promotions you scheduled to help make the tour as successful as it was! . . . you are getting overwhelmingly positive reviews from library staff on your interactions with patrons, musical talent, and professionalism and charm when working with them. Well done!
—Stephanie Wichlacz, Arrowhead Library System

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Bartalina — Songs & Stories of Sailing on the Great Lakes

2025 marks the 50th Anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the 120th Anniversary of the Mataafa wreck at Duluth's Canal Park. Charlie brings a program of songs and stories unequaled in authenticity.

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Book your stage!

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Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory

Songs interspersed with passages from the book. All ages.

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Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie's Life and Times

Includes some of Woody's best-loved and least-known songs.

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Songwriting Sleuth: Gripping Minnesota Tales!

Songs and ballads written by Charlie Maguire of unsung stories of ordinary people.

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Getting in the Cows — Songs & Stories of Life on the Farm

If you ever lived the farming life or wanted to, or if you knew someone who did, you owe it yourself to hear the songs and stories worthy of Smithsonian inclusion in their exhibit “Barn Again.”

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Orphan Train — Songs and Stories from the Musical

From the St. Paul History Theatre's hit musical, hear songs by Charlie Maguire about the orphaned children that were shipped by rail from New York slums to farm families in the Midwest between 1858 and 1929. Songs will tug at your heartstrings and bring hope to audiences of all ages. 

©2018–2025 by Charlie Maguire

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