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I have been fiddling bluegrass, country music, and irish traditional music for a long while now. Lately I've been more into southern old-time music on fiddle and banjo.
I grew up on a small farm in Celo, a small community in western North Carolina. I started fiddling when my mom traded our goats' milk for lessons from Bruce Greene, one of the greatest living old-time fiddlers.
After a few years away from music, I got into Irish fiddling. Living in Chapel Hill, for a few years I toured with the Irish/Cape Breton band Cucanandy. Some of my favorite places we played were the Cherry Tree, Caffe Lena, the Kennedy Center, and the Lunenberg and the Celtic Colours music festivals in Nova Scotia. At home, guitarist Rob Sharer and I hosted some traditional Irish music sessions, which were always best when friends like Grainne Murphy, Dan Leonard, and Pat and Cathy Sky showed up. I also played with friends in the Americana bands Grasshopper Highway, Jonathan Byrd, and Hooverville.
Now my main gig is being an immigration lawyer up in New York City. But I still get the fiddle out to play in Brooklyn and Manhattan with nice folks like The Weal and Woe, The Brooklyn Playboys, Grizzly's String Blitz, The Cobble Hillbillies, The Wissler Family, Rench, Citigrass, The Y'all Stars, Kyle Sanna, Izzy Zaidman, Michael Daves, Ben Fraker, Fionn O'Lochlainn, Dana Lyn, Rhys Jones and many others in the NYC bluegrass, oldtime and traditional irish music scenes.
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