grew up in farm country north of Detroit.  He thought of becoming a forest ranger like Aldo Leopold.  Instead, he graduated from college with a degree in English and drama.  After a brief time pursuing but not capturing an acting career in New York, Mitchell was drafted into the US Army, where he learned to drive a tank and use an assortment of weapons.  Then he spent a peaceful year in Korea as a reporter for Stars & Stripes and as a hoofer in musical comedy reviews, entertaining the troops.  Mitchell returned to Detroit and became a writer for the Great Cities project, a public school experiment bankrolled by the Ford Foundation to develop programs for educating "culturally deprived" children.  A program called Head Start was one.

Mitchell started singing in Detroit folk clubs and saloons, and left his writing job in 1965.  In Toronto, on his first out of town gig, he met Canadian songwriter Joni Anderson from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  They married, and as a duo Chuck and Joni Mitchell played the coffeehouse circuit and gin rummy until they divorced in 1968.  The folk clubs faded, and Mitchell moved on to college and arts council residencies.  He lived in Coconut Grove, Florida, Santa Monica, California, and Greeley, Colorado.  In the eighties, he gravitated back to the middle west, and found a tall brick house built by a riverboat captain in 1879 overlooking the Mississippi River in Iowa.

Mitchell's credits include A Prairie Home Companion, two albums and two singles, and repertory theatre in the US and England. He has played Harold Hill in The Music Man, Old Woody in Woody Guthrie's American Song, and Stephen Foster in Mr. Foster & Mr. Twain.

Mitchell's one man show combines seasoned skills as an, actor, singer and guitarist with a selection of delightful material.  He sings cabaret songs by Brecht and Weil -- "Mack the Knife" and "The Bilbao Song" -- and whimsical songs by Flanders & Swann -- "The Gnu" and "Have Some Madeira, M'dear".  He roves the room singing "Freeborn Man" by Ewan McColl, or "Necessity" from Finian's Rainbow.  He weaves poetry by Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot into his shows.  He has been called a renaissance man, and thinks he is old enough to be one.

In 2013, returned to his longtime home of Portland, OR to record a concert album on the eve of his 30th birthday.  Jesus Is My Dentist: Live in PDX was released in June 2013 and featured a collection of unreleased songs written over the last decade.  Originally from Vancouver, WA, Collin spent much of his youth traveling with his family up to Victoria, BC, where he fell in love with the city’s myriad of folk musicians busking along the harbor.  By the age of 12, Collin was already teaching himself to play his Dad’s old guitar.  In addition to performing and writing, Collin is an avid recording and live audio engineer and is currently the house sound engineer for GW University’s Lisner Auditorium.  To hear Collin’s songs and learn more, please visit: collinwarren.com.

(Doris Justis and Sean McGhee) celebrated their 30th Anniversary in May 2014.  Noted for their close vocal harmonies and guitars backing their original songs and original interpretations of the best folk/acoustic songwriters, they have shared the stage with a "who's who" of folk such as Tom Paxton, Nanci Griffith, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bill Danoff, Jon Carroll, Schooner Fare, Christine Lavin, the Limeliters and the list goes on.  They have been the "houseband" for Music Americana and WFMA since 1984 and continue that role by performing at the Second Sunday El Golfo Showcase from time to time.