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Check "STORE" at right for my CD, "SONGS" to hear or download tunes, and "BLOG" to read more. Don't click the links at the top unless you want to browse through the other EZFolk artists.    

I love the uke. It was my first instrument, and I think it remains my main flame. It's a soprano guitar, it's an indoor banjo, it's the mandolin's politer cousin. It's its own sweet self. I also think uke+guitar is the best string-band duo ever. Better than fiddle-guitar, better than two guitars, guitar-mandolin, anything.

The (ahem) Concept for my solo CD is "Parlour Music" - lightweight, charming instrumentals in the ragtime or classical vein, the sort of things people played at home for their own amusement in the days before TV. The arrangements are all my own - one uke, one guitar, me playing both.

I went through Chalmers Doane's school uke program in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1970s, and was in a group of uke students that toured and recorded. I wasted the next few decades flirting with other instruments: a music degree playing classical guitar, almost getting another in musicology and/or viola da gamba performance, and playing upright bass professionally. A recent infatuation with clawhammer banjo probably added a few wrinkles to the uke playing, too.

I've played most styles of music, and for me the uke works for all of them, one reason I love it so. I've gigged or sat in, or jammed with folk, jazz, pop, hokum, rock, Baroque, classical, Indian, and country musicians. Some of them have asked me to come back...

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