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Charles Nolan is a writer of songs, poetry and more recently, of a volume with the working title “The Holy Bluff” that is intended for publication in late 2012. Mr. Nolan was born in New York City. He entered the Maryknoll Seminary to pursue the Roman Catholic Priesthood in 1959, but left this vocation in 1967 prior to achieving ordination. He built upon his grounding in theology and philosophy with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University in 1967. He now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife, Cheryl Prashker.

Mr. Nolan has written more than two thousand songs and poems, which are generally in narrative form and designed for performance. He began both writing and performing in the heady social and musical environment of the civil rights movement, was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene “right after the stars left” and has remained active in the contemporary “under the radar” Folk Revival.