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Frank Ferrel

Maine

Public Affairs Producer

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Title/Occupation:  Producer 

Services Provided:  Audio and Music Production  Media Arts Organization  Music Library  Narration/Translation 

Gender: Male

Race: None

Citizenship: US

Biography: Frank Ferrel currently works full time for Maine Public Television where he is Host and Producer of the weekly talk show series Conversations with Maine. Prior to this assignment, he was Series Producer of the station’s flagship series, Made in Maine. He is also a contributing producer to the history documentary series Maine Experience, and True North. He has received an Emmy and two Telly awards for his work at Maine Public Television along with four additional Emmy nominations. Prior to coming to MPBN, Frank spent 13 years producing and hosting news and features for the broadcast service of the Christian Science Monitor on both their worldwide radio and national television news programs. He won national awards for his radio programming, and was one of five Boston based correspondents reporting for their nightly news programming on the Discovery Channel's World Monitor News. He also served as host for the Monitor Channel’s news and feature programs, and filed stories from throughout North America, Europe, and the Mediterranean. In addition to his involvement with on-air broadcasting, Mr. Ferrel was also an associate professor at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he taught Communications, Journalism, and Visual Studies. He holds a Masters Degree in Visual Studies. As an independent producer, Mr. Ferrel has produced documentaries for both private and non-profit clients including, Rounder Records, The Boston Science Museum, The National Council for the Traditional arts, Sage Femme, Inc. The PathStar Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, Fabric Artist, Susan Merrill, The Seattle City Sextet, and the Museum of our National Heritage. Mr. Ferrel’s independent documentaries have been included in both national and international film festivals including, the Maine International Film Festival, the Northhampton Film Festival, Havana (Cuba) International Festival, the Guadalupe Festival, The Los Angeles Hispanic Film Festival, the Mothers and Babies Festival, and the New York International Film Festival. Mr. Ferrel currently lives in Maine where he pursues an active interest in traditional music and folklore. An accomplished fiddle player himself, he has made numerous recordings for such prestigious labels as Rounder, Flying Fish, and Voyager Records, and has published three collections of traditional fiddle music. His 1991 recording, “Yankee Dreams,” was chosen by the Library of Congress to include on their select list of, “25 Representative Recordings of American Folk Music.”