Festival!
This page on David's web site has been set up especially for the 2023 Program Committee to evaluate his music for inclusion in the program for the 2023 Ithaca Festival. Thank you for your consideration!
David Caughey has been singing and accompanying himself on guitar since his graduate student days in the 1960s (think Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Judy Collins). His more recent repertoire includes songs by John Denver, Bruce Springsteen and Mary Chapin Carpenter as well as songs by earlier artists of social justice, such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and also a few songs of his own composition.
David's performances include not only his own voice and guitar, but a seamless use of real-time recording, playback, and over-dubbing (using Echoplex digital 'looping' technology) that allows him to layer harmonies and alternative guitar and rhythm parts on top of his vocals.
YouTube Videos
I've made YouTube videos of a couple songs. Here are links to:
(1) a song I wrote in response to the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary a
few years ago
(sadly, it is all too relevant today); and
(2) my version of Joe Jencks' song about immigration.
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| Only in the Darkness | Lady of the Harbor |
Ithaca Festival Parade Songs
Although he hasn't performed at the Festival for the past couple of years, David has written songs, based on the Festival themes, that the First Baptist Church has used in their entries for the Ithaca Festival Parades in several recent years. The theme for the 2015 Festival Parade was Better Together! and First Baptist marched to David's song:
| Better Together | Words & Music: David A. Caughey |
And in 2018 First Baptist marched to a theme in support of the Poor Peoples' Campaign. Here's a link to the YouTube video of our song, Where One is Poor:
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| Where One is Poor |
Other Songs
Here are audio versions of some other songs, some original and some by other composers, that are typical of the types of songs that David performs.
| Song | Composer | ||
| When I'm Gone | Phil Ochs | ||
| Turn, Turn, Turn | Pete Seeger | ||
| Knocking Holes in the Darkness | David A. Caughey | ||
| Rhymes and Reasons | John Denver | ||
| Carolina in my Mind | James Taylor | ||
| Down the Road | Bill Staines | ||
| Turning Toward the Morning | Gordon Bok | ||
| Jubilee | Mary Chapin Carpenter | ||
| Freedom is Coming | Traditional |
Thank you for considering my entry to perform in this year's Ithaca Festival!
All vocals, guitar, and keyboard parts are performed by the artist.