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I'm a hybrid. I was born in London, England on May 4th, 1950. My mother played piano and as a kid I listened avidly to music. I learned piano briefly at age 5 and began violin lessons by the age of 8. By my teens I had moved on to folk and rock 'n roll, and began playing guitar. At college I spent a lot of time jamming with friends on guitar and thought it might be fun to jam with the fiddle. I was hooked right away and luckily so were my friends. Adding my affinity for folk, rock and other genres of music to my classical skills, I created my own style of violin playing. In 1972 I moved to the United States and have pretty much lived here since. In 1973 I toured the West Coast with an Irish rock band Casterbridge Union. Since then I have played or recorded with numerous artists and bands including Clear County Line in LA, and Poets in Heat in the Washington DC area. Oh yeh, I did a two week stint with Dwight Yoakam in a dingy dive in Chatsworth, California before he made it to the big time! My musical influences include folk music from around the world such as English, Scottish, Irish, American, Latin, Cuban, African, Middle Eastern, Indian, and dozens of other cultures, plus rock, jazz, fusion, blues, swing. The album "When", a collaboration, was recorded in 1995. More recently I have been recording my original compositions culminating in a 2002 album Life’s Little Mysteries. |
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