David Coller and Diane Chodkowski

DAVID COLLER has been writing and performing in the folk/Americana genre since his teens. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Southern California before moving to the east coast and a career in the medical world. He has played in bands, duos, and as a solo performer, in both southern California and Connecticut, despite being waylaid by a wooden gaff-rigged schooner. A sailor from the age of nine, it isn’t surprising that the music of the sea, traditional and modern, has been one of his long term interests, both as a writer of songs and as a performer.

DIANE CHODKOWSKI caught the chantey bug as a Sea Scout in high school, and has had many adventures with David on his gaff-rigged wooden schooner. She has been singing harmony in the folk world since the 1980’s in NYC, and has sung or recorded with many wonderful musicians, including Hugh Blumenfeld (former CT State Troubadour) and Peter Yarrow, and was a member of the acclaimed female trio, Madwoman in the Attic. [2026 Connecticut Sea Music Festival]