Reid Miller, Storyteller, and Musician

"Banjo - Ukulele - Tall Tales and Good Time Music" 

Reid Miller was born in Oklahoma City in the mid-20th Century.  He was raised in an Anglo-American family in Shreveport (north), Louisiana.

In high school, he was an underachiever.  However, when school administrators tried to cancel his Senior Prom due to integration, he lead the successful effort to face down racism and hold the event.  The Prom was a rousing success.  

In college he studied natural (now called environmental) science, communications arts, language arts, and educational psychology.  He continues his studies in the school of life.

 

His work life includes stints as convenience store clerk, department store associate, oil field roustabout, truck driver, carpenter, heavy equipment operator, youth counselor, criminal counselor, catalog order phone operator, bicycle mechanic, bicycle tour leader, bicycle police officer, stagehand, and performing artist.

 

His hobbies include bicycling, kayaking, handcrafting, banjo and ukulele restoration, performer coaching, travel, and listening to audiobooks.

 

Reid's expertise is in finding, crafting, and telling stories.  His fascination is the stories of prominent figures in life and the world in which they life or lived, especially when he feels a kinship with them.  Being of Scottish ancestry, examples include Robert Burns (bard/poet), Robert the Bruce-King of Scotland, Mary-Queen of Scots, William Wallace (Braveheart), J M Barrie - creator of Peter Pan, Sean Connery, Ewan MacGregor, Sheena Easton, and Shrek.

 

Learn more in Reid's program:  The Magic and Spirit of Scotland (there's more than clans & kilts).