Allan James Grund - musician, singer, songwriter, and award-winning short story author - specializes in musical programs related to the American Civil War and Poetry in Music.
Allan graduated from Rochester High School in 1966; the U.S. Army Signal Corp in 1968 and saw action in the central highlands of Viet Nam through 1969. In 1972, he graduated from Oakland University with a major in the English language.
Allan has been writing creative works since the age of thirteen. In 1978, he won the Broome Literary Agency International Short Story Writing Contest with his piece: Epitaph for a Sucker.
Allan's love of the outdoors has been well documented in five of his books and stories: Alex of Bendelow; Upacqua the Bearer of Logs; The Song of the Wood Man; Poems of the North and The Portal.
At the age of forty-five, Allan began performing his songs in public and now features two separate and distinct programs using all of his original songs: Two Soldiers - Reflections on the War Between the States (music, dialogue and lecture related to the American Civil War) and Music as Poetry (music, dialogue and lecture related to poetry in music).
Allan applies a simple philosophy to all of his music and entertainment - "Sing from your heart and only good will follow..." Parker
