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 30 years in the export business, traveling the world, while raising a family in Chicago with his wife Sheryl. Their son, who performs rock music using the name Mark Lint, took up and carried on the family singing tradition. (Listen to Mark 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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