My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine
“There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.”
“My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs.”