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. We played all over the West and Midwest for the next four years doing an eclectic mix of bluegrass, country, swing, rock and did lots of original music, mostly penned by my buddy Greg Smith. 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 have played with them for the past 17 years, touring all over the United States and Europe. I helped form Cowtown Boogie in 1993 and we're still going, in spite of the setbacks of losing Mike and Ranger Rick. 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 mostly play steel guitar and fiddle but jump to guitar and bass occasionally, too, sometimes in the middle of a song! I also sing lead and harmony and, probably unfortunately, do most of the talking while we're on stage. In addition to my Cowtown Boogie duties I play banjo, dobro and fiddle in Ron Lynam and Cowtown and bass in the Montgomery Jazz Quartet.