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My classmates once voted me the most likely to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel. Not much has changed since then. Whatever I need to do in the moment, I try to ignore the chatter that’s supposed to keep me safe, and just do it what I think is best for me. So it is with songwriting. I’m learning to just write music that makes me happy.
I didn’t plan it, but it happened. My professional music career began with playing mandolin in an alt-pop band, The Faders, whose songs were penned by the fabulous Jon Ritz, an English Lit professor with the dire mind-set of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and the musical feeling just this side of Wilco. Since then, I earned my singer songwriter stripes at every coffee shop in town when I shared songwriting duties and fronted the band, Red Moon Run, with the jazz-influenced George Salamacha. I also lend my smoky vocals and non-bluegrass influenced spin on mandolin leads in session work for local studios. Most recently, I cut my performance teeth covering pop songs with The Rhythm Shakers, a terrific Pittsburgh band at clubs and corporate gigs.
It’s all about the songs. Where it goes, nobody knows. But what I do know is, I’m moving. You can be sure, I will keep doing that. Stay tuned.
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