I was 10 years of age when I first put bow to string and began my life long love affair with the violin. I was taught my first fiddle song "Boil Down The Cabbage" one fourth of July afternoon, in the mountains of Idaho, on The Salmon River. As evening rolled around I played that tune with a live band and I guess I was hooked. I was raised in Idaho, home of The National Old-Time Fiddle Competition, and not much else so go figure, I learned how to fiddle. I spent most of my years there traveling with my family around the Northwest performing at State Fairs, Rodeos, and Fiddle Contests. In the eighth grade I was flown to Washington D.C. to perform the great fiddle standard "Orange Blossom Special" for the Presidential Inaugural Gala, pretty big deal for a kid from Idaho. They wrote about me in the local paper. Does that count against my fifteen minutes? College years and then I hit the road. San Francisco was the first stop, since then I have performed and traveled in bands from Portland, Oregon to New York City. A resident of Brooklyn for the past two years I have studied violin with Julie Lyonn Lieberman and performed with my band Idaho Red at local venues.