Playing Since: 1965
Experience Level: Expert/Professional
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Gender: Male
Age: 67
My Instruments:
I play an old E. Martin Amati copy (1911) as my main fiddle, which has a loud bark for playing Bluegrass.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Kenny Baker, Paul Warren, Benny Martin, Scotty Stoneman, Vassar Clements, Curly Ray Cline, Dale Potter, Lyman Enloe, Stephane Grappelli, Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, Ron Stewart, Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Flatt and Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers
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Created 2/6/2009
Last Visit 9/18/2024
I am Indiana boy from Terre Haute and started playing the violin at the age of 8 years old in elementay school. I continued playing classical on the violin until I heard Kenny Baker, Bill Monroe's fiddler, at a Bluegrass festival in Beanblossom, Indiana in 1972. After that first exposure to Bluegrass music, I have been playing that "High Lonesome" style of fiddlin' in several Bluegrass bands over the years ever since. In 1985, I met my lovely wife and relocated to Missouri to continue fiddlin'. I am currently playing in a Bluegrass band called "The Missouri River Band" from the Missouri Ozarks. I also love to play for an old time square dance every once in awhile.
Yes, Sir !
" If it ain’t got a fiddle, it ain’t no part of nothing !"
'What is this?' 8 hrs
