I play music and teach hammer dulcimer lessons, mostly in Portland, Oregon. You can find gig details on my calendar page.

I have two regular gigs in Portland with Spud Siegel: First Sunday of the month at Oakshire Brewing with Spud and Steve Einhorn playing guitar and singing like an angel, and usually the Last Sunday at the venerable Goose Hollow Inn with Spud and Mark Vehrencamp, who can blow his sousaphone like a freight train or a nightingale.  Every year around the Winter Solstice I play for the Willamette Master Chorus holiday concerts in Salem, Oregon with my good friends in the Trail Sextet (all former members of the Trail Band) where we play a short instrumental set as well as accompany the choir on some arrangements.

I often play hammer dulcimer for private engagements. I teach individual hammer dulcimer lessons as well as group workshops and dulcimer festivals (yep, that’s a thing!) I have made a number of recordings through the years. Here’s my music performance calendar.

In 1979 I began making my living as a musician, first as a busker, later as a concert stage and recording musician, and as musician, sound effects specialist and voice actor with the Oregon Shadow Theatre. I’ve busked from Washington, D.C. to Boston to Chicago to San Diego, and on one memorable tour from Paris to Munich. Concert and theatrical engagements have ranged from the Smithsonian Institution in D.C. to theatres in Canada and Japan (and an intense week with few surreal gigs in Pyongyang, DPRK with members of the Trail Band) not to mention lots of fun gigs in venues of all types including park amphitheatres, pre-schools, elementary schools, high schools, colleges, classrooms, auditoriums, barns, living rooms, dining rooms, nursing homes, hospitals, folk clubs, critter clubs, taverns, coffeehouses, VFW Halls, Parrish halls and grange halls.

Aside from “for hire” gigs, I have volunteered my services for non-profit, charitable and political events, both as musician and as MC, and have served on a number of not-for-profit boards/panels on matters related to the arts.