Watersprite: Jack Montgomery - guitar, Applachian dulcimer, banjo, harmonica; Lesley Montgomery - vocals and percussion; Ken Frasure - bass and lead guitar; Elizabeth Hayes - vocals and percussion; Fle Frasure - vocals
Influences
Donovan, Dylan, Joan Baez, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, Sandy Denny, Cream, Gordon Lightfoot, etc...
Originally from Columbia, South Carolina, Jack Montgomery began studying guitar at age thirteen. He now plays guitar, bass, banjo, harmonica, mandolin and Appalachian dulcimer.
Jack played his first professional gig in 1967. He then formed a band known as Crossfire with two of his high school friends. Crossfire appeared on several local television programs and regularly played gigs in and around Columbia and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina until it dissolved in 1971.
During his college years, Jack pursued his interest in music. He worked as a solo performer in Best Western Hotel lounges until 1977. After college, he played with several acoustic groupings in South Carolina and Virginia specializing in "ole time" and folk music.
Jack retired from music in the 80s and 90s until he joined the folk band Lost River, performing from 2000 to 2004. He performed in a duet with fellow musician, Graham Hudspeth, called Shadowdancer until April of 2009. He now continues to perform with his wife Lesley and other friends in the folk band Watersprite.
His music has been featured on several festivals, college and Internet radio stations nationally and internationally, as well as the PBS/KET show entitled "Mixed Media." He regularly performs locally in the Bowling Green area and also in Louisville, KY, French Lick, IN, Clarksville and Nashville, TN. Jack lives in Bowling Green and makes his living as an academic librarian at Western Kentucky University.
Jack released his first musical CD entitled "Onward to Avalon" in 2002. Over 800 copies of "Onward to Avalon" have been sold worldwide. His second CD, "Everywhere I Look," was released in November 2004. He and Graham released a CD as Shadowdancer in 2008 entitled "Tradition with a Twist." Currently, Jack is recording a fourth CD with Watersprite.
Musically, Jack is interested in Celtic and contemporary folk music. He writes his own songs and poetry, and he has a passion for discovering older traditional material and giving it a new musical life with new arrangements.
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Sending good thoughts to y'all. Sad I missed Nashville PPD this year and your piece. I did have a wonderful time out West however. Next year I will be in town for Sept., so I will be able to get into all the lovely local stuff that seems to converge on September for one reason or another :o).
Thank you for the friendship and for your kind message, the good music, as well as the beautiful compositions and the good rythmic, the nice guitar,mandolin,banjo,violon,piano,dulcimer and the magnificent vocals.Sound and very well-kept arrangement. Beautiful and long musical journey.
Hey! Thank you so much for being a friend here on my myspace page :) You Rockkkkkkkk!! I'm visiting my hometown in Ohio right now - was out in L.A. and performed at the House of Blues. Check out the Video - hope you like it :)
Hope you have an awesome weekend!!! .. is it friday yet?!?! LOL :) :) Any Fun Plans?
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Hi Jack , Your kind words are much apreciated. and returned with much enjoyment of your music too! Many people have said that our music could cross the atlantic and go down well. We have a few influential movers and shaker friends, and if their efforts come off, may make it a reality for us . If it happens, you will be the first to know! ..till then. Richie Loosehounds
Alexis and Ralph the Dragon...The # 1 Children's Book. of 2009 ...From first time Published Author....Barney Kowalski This NEWLY released children's book is an adorable story of a baby dragon left on a human couple's doorstep.Raised as a little boy ,Ralph doesn't know he's a Dragon until he meets other children.Befriended by a little girl "Alexis" ,they discover Acceptance ,and learn to celebrate their differences and how much they have in common.
Written in language for young children,Ralph has a tongue-in-cheek humor that the adult that reads to them will get a few chuckles .
I wrote this book ,Dawn Phillips did the eye-popping illustration and the publisher is publishamerica.Contact Publishamerica for your copy or ask your bookstore to carry it.
Hey Jack! This one is alittle different............. I have been self publishing it out of my site at www.zaubereigarten.com http://www.zaubereigarten.com/apps/webstore/products/show/497080 It includes correspondence with alot of familiar names and Berks County fixtures as well as 40 or so B&W pics of plants, people, Mts, and Hexs. Runs 600 pages...... Actually there are 2 or 3 more volumes where this came from , this one being the earliest chronologically. It might be controversial, its not a conventional book, but I'm very happy with it.
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