Bob Linsenmayer got his start as an entertainer, using the name Bob Lindsay, while in college in the late 1950s, performing folksongs and humor at Stanford and San Jose State student hangouts. He then began playing the same clubs in San Francisco where the Kingston Trio, Phyllis Diller, Jim Nabors, Maya Angelou (she sang calypsos) and many others had gotten their starts. When the Smothers Brothers would go on tour, Bob would replace them at San Francisco's Purple Onion. Bob then left the San Francisco Bay area and began managing and performing at a folk club in Spokane, and also did some touring in Canada. After the folk music boom faded in the mid-60s, Bob spent 31 years in the export business, traveling the world, visiting over 65 different countries, and collecting songs and stories. While at home in Chicago with his wife Sheryl, he told stories and sang songs to their two children, Robin and Mark. One day he performed for Robin's preschool class and received such an enthusiastic response from the children and teachers that he decided right then that singing and storytelling with children would be his main retirement activity. (Today Mark is carrying on the family music tradition and his rock songs can be heard at www.marklint.com.) In 1996 Bob retired from the export business, and he and Sheryl moved to South Carolina where Bob soon began presenting storytelling/music programs at schools, libraries and festivals. He now performs all over the southeast. He has his guitar, jaw-harp, spoons, nose flute, washboard, African drum, boa constrictor puppet, and a large repertoire of songs and stories for children and adults, and is willing to travel.
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