Margie Goldsmith, a Business Jet Traveler and Wine, Dine & Travel contributor has published over 1,000 articles for forbes.com, O the Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Pursuits, Robb Report and Saturday Evening Post. Her work has also appeared in Travel and Leisure, Hemispheres, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe & Mail and many others. (See full bio here). She specializes in essays, experiential adventure, luxury travel, lifestyle, and CEO and celeb profiles, including of Francis Ford Coppola, Sean Penn, Harry Connick Jr., Sir Richard Branson, Robert Herjavac, David Copperfield, Larry Fitzgerald, Barbara Corcoran and many others.
Goldsmith’s stories have taken her to 145 countries on seven continents and have earned her 101 writing awards including the coveted Gold Lowell Thomas Travel Award from SATW and three Folio Eddie and Ozzie Awards (the largest awards competition in magazine publishing), Solas Award, NATJA Awards, and many others.
She has written about her experiences participating in an Olympic-distance triathlon in Cuba, climbing to Advanced Base Camp on Mt Everest, and teaching blues harmonica to Pygmies in Uganda and tribesmen of Papua New Guinea. She also writes about her hometown, New York City, especially her oasis, Central Park.
Goldsmith’s photos have appeared in Forbes.com, National Geographic Traveler, Art & Antiques, the Christian Science Monitor, Wine Enthusiast, and Business Jet Traveler, among others. Her photo of Sir Richard Branson was the inside cover of the Virgin Atlantic Airways brochure.
She writes mainly for national and international magazines and newspapers, both print and online. Goldsmith is a two-time published novelist: Screw-Up, and Masters of the Harmonica. Her stories appear in Traveler’s Tales, A Wild Adventure Anthology, National Geographic’s Spiritual Journey, Chance Encounters, and GoNomad’s London Essays.
Her book, Masters of the Harmonica: 30 Harmonica Masters Share their Craft has been a #1 Amazon bestseller. This year she also wrote ten blues songs and recorded an album, Margie Goldsmith and Friends, on which she sang and played blues harmonica,(available on Spotify and Apple Music).
When not writing or traveling, she bikes, hikes, jams, and practices blues harmonica. When visiting foreign countries, she gives away Hohner harmonicas to school children because, Goldsmith says. “Music is a universal language, an ideal way to communicate with everyone, It’s my passport to the world.
Masters of the Harmonica: 30 Harmonica Masters Share Their Craft is Margie Goldsmith's most recent book is a series of interviews with well-known harmonica masters including everyone from Kim Wilson, Charlie McCoy and Paul Oscher to Delbert McClinton, Charlie Musselwhite, Magic Dick and Howard Levy.
Says Gerhard Mueller, Product Manager, Hohner Harmonicas,"There have been books written about how to play harmonica, books on the history of harmonica, techniques and resources, but never before has there been a book in which 30 harmonica masters share their knowledge of the instrument. Masters of the Harmonica is a must-have for harmonica players of every level.”
Masters of the Harmonica: 30 Master Harmonica Players Share Their Craft” is available for purchase at Amazon. (now also available on Amazon International) and Book Logix
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