Here is a short list of places where Rik has performed over the years.

United States

TV
ABC , Nightline News 

WCAX TV news Burlington VT (CBS Affiliate) Friday Morning Music Showcase
NBC News -WGRZ TV Buffalo NY (Feature Interview with Rich Kellman)

WCAX Burlington VT , "Across The Fence"

Fox 22 News  Polish Fest, Milwaukee WI

Adelphia Cable  (A Concert With Rik Palieri)

WCIU TV Chicago IL (The Bob Lewandowski Show)

Polevision Chicago Il  (American Po Goralsku)

NJ PATV  (Horses Sing None Of it)

ACTV NJ (American Celtic)



Rik also hosts and produces his own weekly TV show on VCAM TV in Burlington Vermont This show is a half hour program featuring some of the top American and world Song Writers and has had many outstanding guest such as Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, and Utah Phillips.





Live Radio Interviews
River City Folk , distributed by the WFMT Radio Network
WNYC -NY , "The American Folk Festival " with Oscar Brand
WRKE-FM Public Radio  Baton Rouge, LA , With Taylor Cafrey

WYMS - Milwaukee WI , With Mike Yohus

WYSO - FM Antioch College , Ohio with Ann Williams

WRSU  Rutgers University New Brunswick , NJ with Richard Skelly

WPRB  Princeton University , Princeton NY , with John Wingart

KXCI  Radio Tucson Arizona with Jim Foley

Vermont Public Radio  , with host Mark Hauser

WERU , Blue Hill Maine

KRZA  Alamos Colorado

Maine Public Broadcasting "All Maine Things Considered"

WCBN FM  Radio Free Ann Arbor Michigan

WEVIL , Memphis Tennessee ,  with Ron Katz

KTOO  (NPR) Juneau Alaska , with Jeff Brown

KTAO ,  Taos New Mexico

KANU, Kansas University with Radio Bob

KJBC  Midland Texas (Texas Song Writer's) with Cindy Turney

WBVS Davis California ,  with  Bill Wagman

WNEC  Henniker New Hampshire , with Chip Colcord




Folk Festivals
The Alaska Folk Festival
The Philadelphia Folk Festival
The Hudson River Revival
The Asbury Park Clearwater Festival ,NJ
Old Songs, Albany NY (With The Rose Tattoo)
The Champlain Valley Folk Festival, VT
The Phoenix Heritage Folk Festival  AZ
Festival on The Green , Middlebury VT
The Burlington International Festival
The Boston World EXPO , Boston MA
Connecticut River Festival Hartford VT
Friends Across The Boarder Festival , Plattsburg NY
Massachusetts Maritime Festival Salem, MA
Haw River Festival, North Carolina
Eisteddfod Folk Festival, SMU, MA
Bread & Roses Labor Festival, Lawrence MA
International Banjo Festival, Orlando, FL
The New Jersey Folk Festival
Polish Fest, Milwaukee WI

Concerts
The Kennedy Performing Arts Center (With the DAFT Tour)
Pete Seeger Song Fest, (With Pete Seeger) NYC
A Tribute to Sis Cunningham NYC
Clearwater Pumpkin Sail
Fine Gold Concerts, Mariposa, California
Hootenanny at the Tarrytown Music Hall, NY
Claremont Opera House, New Hampshire
Chilkat Performing Arts Center, Haines Alaska
Lake Placid Performing Arts Center, NY
The “Trump” Taj Mahal, Atlantic City NJ
University Of Vermont
Alaska University South East, Juneau Alaska

Clubs & Coffee Houses
The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville Tennessee, (Song Writer's Night)
The Cherry Tree Coffee House, Philadelphia PA
The Troubadour, New Fane PA
The Try works Coffee House, New Bedford MA
The Café Leana, Saratoga Springs NY
The Fast Folk Café, NYC
Mine Street Coffee House, New Brunswick NJ
The Minstrel Show, Mendem, NJ
The Turning Point, NY
Fiddlers Dream Coffee House, Phoenix AZ
The Burlington Coffee House, Burlington VT
Middle Earth Coffee House, Bradford, VT
Ripton Coffee House, VT
Cousin Andy’s, Carbondale IL
Jimmy Driftwood’s Barn, (With Jimmy Driftwood) MT View Arkansas
Club Metronome, Burlington VT

Canada

Radio
CBC news of the Folk Train
The Vancouver Folk Festival
The Island Folk Festival

England

Over the years Rik has performed at hundreds of schools and town hall concerts in Lincolnshire hosted by Folk DJ Toney Nightingale

Dawlish Folk Festival
Folk Festival on the Fen
The Black Horse (Nettleham)
The Warf (Tavistock)
Old Nick’s Tavern (Horn castle)
The Blue Peter Pub (Polperro)

TV
BBC Nottingham
West Country TV with host Ian Sterling

Radio
BBC radio Lincolnshire (The Folk Show)
BBC Derby, (Folk Waves)
Folks wagon with Tony Nightingale
Gemini Radio (Exeter)

Scotland

Radio
BBC Jimmy Macgregor’s Gathering
The Café Cossock

Germany

In Germany Rik has performed in many schools and concerts with his musical partner Wilfred Mengs.

Radio
"Live" performance on Deutschland Radio, broadcasted through out Germany

Festivals
The DAFT Tour, 2003 (The German American Folk Singers Meeting), A series of 32 concerts through out Germany. Sponsored in part by The CF Martin Guitar Company and Smart wood.
The 2003 Rudolstadt folk Festival
Folklorum Festival (Kulturinsel Einsiedel)





Poland

Radio & TV
Program 1 National TV Warsaw
Program 2 National TV Katowicza (Feature with interview by Jadwiga Starczewcy
Polski Radio #2 With Jerzy Tuzewuli, Warsaw
Polski Radio Rzeszow, with Jan Zolotnko

Festivals
The World Festival, Reszow Poland

Japan

Rik was filmed for a Japanese TV program about Pete Seeger's Song "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" In this award winning film Rik was interviewed and sang , joined Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Joe Hickerson and many others in tribute to one of Pete’s most important songs.

Australia

Radio
ABC Australian Radio National, "The Music Show"
Melbourne PBS, "The Global Village" With Roger Holdsworth
SBS FM Melbourne
IRR – Melbourne
BAY FM – Brisbane, With Colin Nightingale
ABC- Brisbane
ABC- Northern Territory
ABC- Coast FM (The Sunshine Coast)
8HA AM Alice Springs

Festivals and Concerts
The Port Fairy Folk Festival
The Botie World Music Club (Melbourne)
Bo jangles, Alice Springs
Yandina Folk Club
The Padding ton Workers Club




France

Tour with Jozef Broda’s Folk Group 1984
TV – Notre Television Regionale, Dijon

Spain

Festival Folkorique des Pyrenees
Madrid Project International Conference

Grants, Fellowships & Sponsors

The Vermont Arts Council
Since 1984 Rik has been an Artist for the State Of Vermont’s Artists Register. He has received two Artist development grants and has been involved in the artist in education program bringing arts into the classroom.

National School Assemblies Program & the Dakota Assemblies 1991-1993
In this time period, Rik devoted his life to bringing Polish Folk Culture to America, by performing in over 1000 schools, in every state except Hawaii

LOT Polish Airlines- 1992- 1996
Rik Developed and led a number of tours to teach Americans about Poland. LOT also sponsored a few of Rik’s performance tours both in Poland and in Glasgow Scotland.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Sponsored Rik’s 1996 National Coffee House tour of America.

The Alaskan Maritime Highway
Sponsored Rik in its "Artists on Board" program, performing concerts on the ferry from Bellingham Washington through South East Alaska.

Meet The Composer Grant, 1990
The North Country Community College, Artist in Education, sponsored an educational tour of the Adirondacks.

The Kosciusko Foundation- 1984-85
Rik received a fellowship to study the Polish Bagpipe

Recordings

Last of the Gypsies
The Music in Me
Ryki Song of the Elk
Rik Palieri Children’s Concert
Panning For Gold
Hard Traveling (with Gareth Hedges)
Hobos & Heroes
Balloon Adventure (with Wilfred Mengs)

Books

The Road Is My Mistress
Die StraBe, meine Geliebte (German edition)
Story in; Chicken Soup Stories for the Soul, Stories for a Better World
Co author Music for Peace

Film Soundtrack

Epoch