Currently based in Williamsburg, MA, I was raised in Montana and am lucky to have been surrounded by music my whole life. I am a performer, teacher, recording artist, tunesmith and songwriter. Fiddle is the main instrument but clawhammer banjo, guitar, classical violin and voice equally fill my musical world.
I started off learning fiddle from my mom, mostly bluegrass and Texas Style - it was fiddle contests, family band and orchestra until I went to college (Violin Performance at University of Northern Colorado). There I was introduced to traditional Irish music by flute player Blayne Chastain (Fiddle and Flute, 2011). Around that time Oldtime music had also found its way into my life, and good thing! - it’s fun and groovy with a fantastic catalog of tunes. A couple years back friends Tyler Andal, Casey Campbell and I got together in Nashville, TN and recorded some of our favorites (Hell Broke Loose, 2023).
I love writing and recording music, especially fiddle tunes and have three albums of original material (Paths & Places, 2017) produced by Joe K. Walsh, (Fireweed, 2019) co-produced with Ben Winship, (Montana Wildflower, 2023) with Quinn Bachand, and a single (Going Going Gone, 2024).
A bit about my musical life, in Colorado I founded new acoustic band Masontown and released three albums (Masontown EP, 2015), (In This Time, 2017) and (Age, 2020). Fiddle contest wins include National Small Fry (1994), National Young Adult (2015), RockyGrass (2015), and Kentucky State (2022). I’ve been a violinist with the National Repertory Orchestra, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Greeley Philharmonic and Bozeman Symphony. Have taught at Montana Fiddle Camp, Rockygrass Academy, Walker Creek Music Camp, Targhee Bluegrass Camp, Nashville Acoustic Camps, Wicklund’s Fiddle Pal Camp and Rustic Roots. From 2017-2022 I was adjunct fiddle professor at the University of Northern Colorado’s Folk & Bluegrass program and am currently teaching Irish fiddle at Smith College in Northampton, MA. I play with Vermont based trio Low Lily (Angels in the Wreckage, 2023) and occasionally as a duo with Quinn Bachand, Ben Winship and Yann Falquet.
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“With an exacting attention to detail and an infectious energy…each of these originals could easily pass for old-time fiddle tunes found on field recordings.” -Strings Magazine