Willy Welch, best-known for his tune "Right Field," (recorded by Peter Paul & Mary, among many others) has been a professional singer/songwriter since his teens. He has toured nationally and played such venues Folk City, The Speakeasy, The Bitter End, and Uncle Calvin's. He penned a musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Dallas Shakespeare Festival, and composed dozens of songs as staff writer for the hit PBS-TV show 'Barney & Friends.' Trained as an actor at the Boston U., he often combined skills in shows such as Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Assassins, Cotton Patch Gospel, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues and Smoke on the Mountain. Off B'way, Willy appeared in "Flipside, the Patti Page Musical," and in "Texas in Paris," opposite Tony award-winning star Lilias White. While husband & father in the long-running domestic comedy “The Welch Family,” he also spent much of his performing time as “Mr. Willy,” a beloved children’s entertainer.