Dick Cerri
Richard Anthony Cerri, known as Dick Cerri was a well known Folk Music, American disc jockey in Washington, D.C. between 1960 and 1995.
Cerri was born in Utica, New York on June 1, 1936, the younger of two children of Dominick J. Cerri and his wife Mildred May Isaac. Cerri started out in high school as an announcer in Utica on WIBX-AM and moved to ABC affiliate WRUN-AM where he remained through college. He graduated in 1959 from Utica College.
He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1960 and soon after was employed at WAVA-FM, where he created the show "Music Americana, the Folk Music of America." Cerri hosted and produced at several area radio stations, including WHFS-FM and WJMD-FM which changed call sign to WLTT-FM. He was most recently working on digitizing his "Music Americana" radio shows, a project announced at the "Remembering Dick Cerri: A Celebration in Song", will be completed by the WFMA Foundation. The extent of his influence can be gauged by the musicians at the September 27, 2014 concert: Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Chad Mitchell, Christine Lavin, Schooner Fare, Squid Jiggers, Donal Leace, Modern Man, Tom Paxton, Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen, Bill Danoff, Mack Bailey, Anne Hills, Carolyn Hester and daughters Amy Blume and Karla Blume, Jonathan Edwards and Side By Side.
