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I have a long musical history, starting with classical piano as a child. I took up folk guitar in college, and then banjo and fiddle during the folk revival of the 60's. I was inspired by the Berkeley Folk Music Festival which took place during that era and which brought to the West Coast some of the great traditional musicians of the 20th Century, such as Tommy Jarrell, Roscoe Holcomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Sam and Kirk McGee and countless others... In the 70s and 80s I made several pilgrimages to the East Coast and Appalachians and visited the homes of Tommy Jarrell, Franklin George, Burl Hammons, Oscar Wright and other great American musicians. I attended Fox Hollow, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Festival of the Smokies, Pipestem, Galax, and other East Coast hotbeds of bluegrass and old-timey music.