American musician
Michael Bacon
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/MichaelBaconApr10.jpg/220px-MichaelBaconApr10.jpg) Bacon in April 2010
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Born
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1949-12-22
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December 22, 1949
(age 74)
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Occupation(s)
| Singer-songwriter, musician, composer
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Relatives
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Musical career
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Genres
| Country
, rock,
folk
,
soul
,
film score
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Instrument(s)
| Vocals, guitar, keyboards, cello,
banjo
, drums, violin
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Member of
| The Bacon Brothers
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Website
| michaelbaconmusic
.com
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Musical artist
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Michael Bacon
(born December 22, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and
film score
composer. He is the older brother of actor
Kevin Bacon
. He is a faculty member in music at
Lehman College
.
Early life
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Bacon, one of six children, was born in
Philadelphia
and raised there in a close-knit family. A former Park Avenue debutante, his mother, Ruth Hilda (nee Holmes), taught elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father,
Edmund Bacon
, was a well-respected urban planner and author of the canonical urban planning book,
Design of Cities
. Michael attended and graduated from the prestigious
Central High School (Philadelphia)
, June 1965, 224th class.
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Years later, he entered
Lehman College
and graduated in 1995.
Career
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Music
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The Bacon Brothers, Michael (right) and Kevin Bacon, NYC
Bacon is an accomplished guitarist, keyboardist and cellist. In the late 1990s and into the 2000s, Bacon performed with his
Golden Globe
and
Screen Actors Guild Award
-winning brother,
Kevin
, in a duo ensemble, called
The Bacon Brothers
, which he formed. With three albums to their credit by 2001, Bacon's tour schedule included eight concerts for the summer of that year, at venues from New York City, down the
East Coast
, and into the
Midwest
to
Peru, Illinois
and
Missouri
. The duo have written and performed songs together for several decades, including several commercial numbers and maintain that they will continue to work together and perform. The Bacon Brothers were featured on the July?August 2006 cover of
Making Music Magazine
.
Film and television
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In January 2006, Bacon appeared on an episode of
Queer Eye
with his brother
Kevin
. The episode featured him as the episode's "straight guy" and makeover recipient, and ended with both
Bacon Brothers
performing.
Bacon has composed hundreds of songs for television shows and motion pictures. In 2008, Bacon composed the soundtrack for the
PBS
mini series
The Jewish Americans
.
Academia
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Bacon earned his BS from Lehman College in 1995. From 2010 to 2016 he served as Distinguished Lecturer and currently is an Associate Professor of Music.
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Personal life
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Bacon has been married to Betsy Maguire-Bacon since 1972 and they have one child, Neil Bacon (born April 29, 1982). He earned a degree in music from
Lehman College
, studying
composition
and
orchestration
with
Pulitzer Prize
-winning composer
John Corigliano
.
Discography
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Bacon at a concert of the Bacon Brothers in 2006
Solo
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“Good News" Columbia
“Bringin’ it Home" Monument/CBS
“Love Song Believer" Monument/
With Kevin Bacon as the Bacon Brothers
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- 1997:
Forosoco
- 1999:
Getting There
- 2001:
Can't Complain
- 2005:
White Knuckles
- 2009:
New Years Day
- 2011:
Philadelphia Road ? The Best Of
- 2014:
36¢
- 2018:
The Bacon Brothers
- 2020:
The Way We Love
Film and television scores
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- Film
- Network
- Hiroshima, Rage and Betrayal, Pot of Gold
-
Peter Jennings
ABC
- Turning Point
? ABC Series (17)
- The Century
-ABC (26)
- Gettin' Over with Tony Danza
ABC Series (9)
- Tyson: The Fallen Champ
2 hour NBC Movie of the Week dir.
Barbara Kopple
- Trackdown
ABC series (3)
- Code One
ABC Special
- Brides
ABC Special
- We're Expecting
ABC Special
- America's Missing Children
CBS Special
- Body Watching
CBS special
- Yearbook
Fox series (11)
- Urban Anxiety
Fox series (9)
- Public television
- Finding Your Roots
(2011?12)
- The Buddha
(2010)
- The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
(2009)
- The Adirondacks
- George H. W. Bush
- Bill Moyers Journal
(2007)
- Out of the Shadows
- The Mysterious Human Heart
(2007)
- The Jewish Americans
(2007)
- Oprah's Roots
(2007)
- African American Lives
I and II (2006) (2008)
- Victory in the Pacific
(2005)
- RFK
(2005)
- Marie Antoinette
(2006)
- Religion and Ethics
-theme
- Destination America
(2005)
- Young Dr. Freud
Emmy nominee for original score
- The Windsors
4-hour mini-series
- Degenerate Art
PBS (David Grubin)
- Napoleon
4-hour mini-series
- HOXIE: The First Stand
(Peabody Award)
- Jim Crow
- American Experience
? WGBH
- Surrender in the Pacific
(2005)
- The Kennedys
Emmy winner for Outstanding Achievement in Music, (News and Documentary)
- FDR
Peabody Award winner
- Amelia Earhart
- LBJ
National Emmy Nominee David Grubin Chicago Film Fest. Gold Plaque Award for Music
- Eisenhower
- MacArthur
- Lincoln
- Andrew Carnegie
- Gold Fever
- Teddy Roosevelt
(TR)
- The Last Boss
(Daley)
- Orphan Trains
- The Wright Stuff
- Journey to America
- The World That Moses Built
- The Great Air Race
- Hurricane of 1938
- Reagan
- Truman
(Emmy Winner)
- Alone on the Ice
(Admiral Byrd)
- Dust Bowl
- America 1900
(Emmy winner, Peabody Award winner)
- Smithsonian World
- The Wyeths
(adaptation of
Ann Wyeth McCoy
’s music) Emmy winner 1988 (David Grubin)
- Voices of Latin America
- Bill Moyers on PBS
- Healing and the Mind
1993 National Emmy winner Inf. Series (5)
- Bill Moyers’ Journal
- In Search of the Constitution
- A Second Look
- Report from Philadelphia
- The Secret Government
- God and Politics
- World of Ideas
- Power of the Word
- Nova
-WGBH
- Shackleton
- World in the Balance
- In Search of the Super Twister
- The Big Dig
- Trillion Dollar Bet
- Electric Heart
- Rescue Mission in Space
- Eclipse of the Century
- In Search of the Lost Language
- Roller Coaster
- Condors
- Buried in Ash
- Sick Buildings
- Meteors
- WNET
- Theme for The Musicals
1990 Emmy Best Director (John Merdin)
- America on Wheels
- Cable
- The Man who Loved Sharks
(
Nigel Noble
) 1992 ACE Award Nominee-Best Original Score
- Marilyn: The Last Interview
(HBO)
- LOCOMOTION Engines of Enterprise
(BBC)
- Shoot the Clock
Lifetime
- Addicted
Lifetime
- Multiple Personality Disorder
(HBO)
- Mitchum
Ace Award Wombat Productions
- CNN: Special Assignment Theme
- Rediscovering America with Roger Kennedy
Discovery Series (11)
- Sports Illustrated for Kids
(HBO)
- Drining Passion
(TURNER)
- Animal ER
(TURNER)
- The Hidden Zoo
(TURNER)
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