People have been paying me to play music since 1973, when I became a member of The World's Largest Prairie Dog, a Wichita, Kansas-based bluegrass band. I then helped found the regionally-popular band Potlatch in 1976 and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, with them in 1978. In 1982 I started playing bluegrass again with The Cheyenne Ramblers in Colorado Springs. In 1987 I took a teaching job in Ault, Colorado (outside of Fort Collins) and moved to "Fort Fun" where I live today. In 1989 I got the call to join Front Range on banjo and played with them for 15 years, touring all over the United States and Europe until the untimely death of my pal Mike Lantz. Mike and I formed Cowtown Boogie in 1993 and we're still going, in spite of the setbacks of losing Mike and Ranger Rick Bradstreet. I still teach school, now at Poudre High School in Fort Collins and, in 1997 I married my wife Julie and became the step-dad to Siobahn and Ciaran. In Cowtown I play banjo, guitar, dobro and fiddle. I also sing lead and harmony and, probably unfortunately, do most of the talking while we're on stage.
RON AND FRIEND
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