A Previous Life

My good friend Kathy DeAngelo put up this photograph from 43 years ago when Ed McDermott and I gave a fiddle workshop on the back porch of the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University. I learned a lot of Irish Music from Mac. Damn, I miss those days. Check out Kathy’s site at You Gotta Have […]

Getting Inside Out

I recently bought a turntable that has a computer connection. Now comes the fun part: recording hundreds of my vinyl records that I bought in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of my long playing records are folk music: Irish ulleann bagpipes pipes; English Northumbrian folksongs; Jewish Klezmer music; Old Timey (pre-bluegrass) American music; French hurdy […]