Then had a career in dance for about 10 years. Folk music and some of the avant-garde are the genre he s always liked the best. He joined Golden Link after playing at one of Bob and Donna Russell's Erie Canal Parties, back in 1990. He actually tried to make a go of it as a professional folkie a while back, playing alone and with the band Hot Lime Pickle. He s drawn to hybrid forms, where you get African, Celtic and god knows what else all mixed in together.
Sea shanties are a good example of hybrid music.
This past year he picked up a banjo and has been studying claw hammer technique with Dwight Diller down in West Virginia, always wanting to study Appalachian music up in the mountains, in the heart of it all, from someone who was suckled on it. So this is a long-time dream coming true. Learning a new instrument and a new musical rhythm has just made music come alive for him again. Playing with Lincoln has made the journey just that much more fun. Both he and Lincoln are really looking forward to sharing the mountain sound with their friends in Rochester.