Mel Bay's Fiddle Tunes and Irish Music for Mandolin
Dan Gelo was born and raised in northern New Jersey. Dan began studying guitar at age eight and later added mandolin, banjo, and fiddle to his roster of instruments. His teachers included the multi-instrumentalist and composer Eugene Ettore, chord solo stylist John Pariso, and Gene Lowinger, the concert violinist who troued as a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. He developed a passion for roos music of all kinds, from traditional Irish music to bluegrass to rockabilly, and earned a living teaching music and playing ina variety of bands and studios around New York. Dan's admiration for the great folk song collectors such as John and Alan Lomax led him to the formal study of anthropology, and he earned advanced degrees from Rutgers University.Today Dan is an anthropology professor at the University of Texas in San Antonio. His scholarly publications include articles and books on the music and folk traditions of the Comanche Indians, and three award-winning film documentaries on the Indians of Texas. When he is not lecturing or conducting field work with Native Americans, Dan continues to compose and perform on mandolin and acoustic guitar. Dan's two books, Fiddle Tunes and Irish Music for Mandolin and Fiddle Tunes and Irish Music for Guitar were among the first in the Mel Bay catalog to feature Celtic stylings.