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I owe my first interests in playing the guitar to the free spirited chops of Eddie Van Halen, which so captured my fascination back in grade school and fueled an obsession to learn the guitar. At 14, I took lessons with a teacher who opened my eyes to such guitarists as Robben Ford, Larry Coryell, Al Di Miola, Pat Metheny and guitar genius Lenny Breau and the endless road to developing my guitar skills began. As I approach midlife I am but a short way into that journey but I'm forever discovering great influences and pursue a variety of stylistic forms from jazz, rock fusion, solo acoustic to traditional folk. I was fortunate to attend the Berklee College of music for a 5 week music program in high school and for 2 years in college studying film scoring. I later transferred to the University of Maine at Augusta's jazz program where I earned my bachelors degree in jazz performance. At 22 I took an interests in traditional dance music and picked up the mandolin and fiddle and helped in the founding of the Celtic/world band Wake the Neighbors that has endured to this day. My latest project has been a progressive traditional music duo with Ed Howe on electric five string fiddle called Perpetual e-Motion. We're currently touring around the country performing our blend of propulsive traditional/world electronic music for contradances, a pastime that has been been near and dear to me for quite some time. If I'm not making music then I'm likely out on the dance floor or up in the sky flying an old vintage Cessna 172.
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