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• mandolin
• guitar - acoustic & electric (bluegrass, flatpicking, country, swing, blues, roots rock)
• banjo - (beginners) Scruggs, clawhammer, Melodic (Keith) Style, fiddle tunes).
• vocals - bluegrass/country/swing jazz, and country yodeling


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Adjunct Music Faculty at Lewis and Clark College. Teaches mandolin, bluegrass guitar, and banjo.

• Appeared as instructor at Centrum's Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, WA. (2009, 2011)

• Workshop instructor at Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival. (2010, 2011)

• assistant faculty (bluegrass jam leader) at the Mandolin Symposium. (2007)

• Alaska City Folk Arts Camp, Anchorage, AK. Ages 9-17. (2009, 2010, 2011)

• Conducts group workshops at music stores around the Northwest.

EDUCATION:

• Studied music theory and banjo with Bill Keith for two years.

• Studied with jazz guitarist Mike DeMicco (Brubeck Brothers) for two years.

• Studied music theory and jazz for 2 1/2 years at Bard College, in New York

• Graduated from University of Washington with B.A. in Creative Writing.