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Playing Since: 2004
Experience Level: Novice

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: High School

Gender: Male
Age: 31

My Instruments:
fiddle, guitar, bass, a little mandolin... my fiddle is a handmade one out of chicago... no specific brand, but i love it.... it was made in 1943... i also have a 5 string fiddle thats fun to play

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys, Kenny Baker, Bobby HIcks, Benny Martin, Buddy Spicher, Dale Potter, Michael Cleveland, Mark O'Conner, Chubby Wise, Tater Tate, Dailey and Vincent, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, and any good bluegrass music or good fiddle tunes.

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Created 9/26/2009
Last Visit 1/18/2011

I'm 15 until August 6, 2010, and I'm from Wapello, Iowa . I've been playing the fiddle for nearly 6 years now and i love it. I wanted to start playing the fiddle after hearing Alison Krauss and Union Station on a live CD. So I started taking classical lessons and really hated it. After 2 years of classical, and still hating it, my Grandma Karen Zippe finally took me to a bluegrass festival in Hannibal, MO. It was the best experience of my life. I met lots of fiddlers throughout that weekend and I was exposed to lots of awesome bluegrass . If i didn't have fiddling in my life I would be one bored kid during the summer, considering i don't play sports or anything. After Hannibal i needed more so that following summer my other grandparents, Keith and Carla Grimm, took me all around northern Missouri. Now we have been going every year since and it's what I look forward to all winter long. If it wasn't for my grandparents i wouldn't get to do what i love, and thats fiddling.