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Playing Since: 1978
Experience Level: Purty Good

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

Occupation: Programmer/Instructor

Gender: Male
Age: 63

My Instruments:
Yamaha nylon-string guitar with a cutaway and the electronics stripped out; violin, viola, violoncello, and upright bass; mandolin and mandola; flute and alto flute; sopranino, soprano, alto and tenor recorders; banjo (um, not really well at all yet).

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Jane Rothfield; Hollow Rock Reunion Band/Allan Jabbour; Tim Daniels; Charlie and Ira Stripling; Bosco Takaki; Natalie Haas; Alasdair Fraser; Edgar Meyer; Susan Conger; David von Kaynor; Mary Cox; Julie Duggan; Dan Gellert; John Bullard; Ken Perlman; Riley Baugus; Brad Leftwich; Isaac Enloe, Bosco Takaki; Christopher Parkening; the Romero brothers; Doc Watson; Chirps Smith.

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Created 8/26/2008
Last Visit 9/9/2010

I left Cuba when I was 11 days old. I'm a refugee from the Disco craze and I was liberated from Caribbean dance music when I learned the Principles of Good Music -- hallelujah! I got into classical music, learning to play the guitar, recorder, flute and foddle (cello). I picked up the fiddle and faddle (viola) in June 2005 because of a multi-instrumentalist/fiddler friend of mine. I play the faddle in the church orchestra, and sometimes play the fiddle, foddle or guitar at church. I bought a 1943 Kay foeddle (bass) September 2006 and play it with the All Voluteer String Band for barn dances and local cultural events. I'm manic about American folk music, especially old-time music from downstate Illinois and the New England region of the USA, and fiddle music from Ireland, Scotland, England, Scandinavia, Europe, and Canada.