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Skip has been playing in bands
for over thirty years. Growing up in Southern Ontario, he played in rock
and blues bands before getting into traditional music in the early
1970’s. He played 5-string banjo with the Ladies Choice Bluegrass Band ,
touring extensively and recording two albums. Skip was also a member of
the house band on ATV’s Up Home Tonight television show for it’s entire
eight-year run. He is currently a member of the Gordon Stobbe Trio, and
the Richard Wood Band.
Skip has done extensive radio and
television work, commercial jingles, and studio recordings, and has
transcribed a number of books of fiddle tunes for Mel Bay Publications,
including books on Byron Berline and Stuart Duncan , and a collection of
original fiddle tunes by P.E.I. fiddler Richard Wood, published privately.
Skip has been teaching guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin and dobro at
the Canadian Conservatory of Music in Halifax, N.S. for the past twenty
years, and has been a guest instructor at numerous workshops and fiddle
camps throughout Canada.
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