Dr Wayne "Doc" Kirby, Dave Fields, Van Romaine, Dave Nunez, Leland Sklar, The Seldom Scene Live at the Cellar Door (John Duffey, John Starling, Mike Auldridge, Tom Gray and Ben Eldridge) Hub Nitchie (RIP), Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman ( the New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass album), Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson, my lovely wife, Diane Garisto
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I have been in the music thing professionally since the ripe old age of 12. The librarian at my Junior High school in Annapolis, Md was Hub Nitchie, the founder of the Banjo Newsletter, and he was incredibly kind in taking me under his wing and getting me going on the Banjo. I was soon playing out at bars (?!) and bluegrass jams in the area.
After a move to Westport, Ct the banjo thing started to take a back seat to choral singing and the electric bass. I attended Westminster Choir College in Princeton NJ for three years, singing at both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. During the summers I played banjo and guitar in the Good Time Country Show at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va. The bass player in that band was none other than (a very young) Victor Wooten. I got to play banjo with Vic before Bela did!
I followed the musical director at Busch, Dr Wayne Kirby, to his new post at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he was setting up an Audio Engineering degree program. I was fortunate as well to study (indifferently, to my present day chagrin) upright and electric bass with him.
After years of kicking around doing this gig and that, hundreds of weddings (often with amazing musicians) and other craziness, I have come to a place where I am able to play with people I love and respect, a gift beyond measure for which I am eternally grateful.
Love to you all
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Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends! We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too. We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy. Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other. We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large. What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Andy, So I got to perform with you TWICE last night. Lucky Me!!! You sounded terrific. So rock solid and so lyrical at the same time. Hard to do..... but not for you. Look forward to doing it again.
