My journey with music began when I picked up the banjo as a middle schooler in West Virginia, inspired by the sounds of old-time mountain music. Fiddle has been my main focus for the past eight years, and has become a defining and shaping force in my life. I have been actively growing food for about as long and now derive most of my income from farming. Music and agriculture are my twin passions in this life, and I know that my relationship with this landscape and experience working with this land inform my music and depth of understanding and appreciation for the ethos of old-time fiddling; as a folk art, a communal experience, and a rich and vibrant tradition.