Started playing guitar at age 9 focusing on rock and blues. Around 1976 got very interested in Bluegrass and picked up the mandolin which lead to playing the fiddle. In 1980 discovered Traditional Irish Music and joined the first Irish band in Kansas City called Talisman. After a few years I started another band called Scartaglen that gained national success. Through the years was in a number of bands and now play in a group called Into The Sun, all the while playing blues with Night Train.