Tucson Weekly

I grew up in Ozark, MO and graduated from the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine in 1987. I’ve been a practicing veterinarian ever since. I have lived in Missouri, Oregon, Arizona and near Florence, Italy. I currently live in Amherst, Massachusetts, and play locally when I get the chance. I have most commonly been seen with a local jazz cooperative called Jazz Sketches. For the last five years, I have toured extensively with Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, playing fiddle and mandolin. Along with Jim Watson, we play concerts and festivals all across this great land of ours… Oops! That’s Jim’s line. I played and sang on their last two Red House recordings, Stonewall Country and These Old Dark Hills.

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Peter started playing the guitar at the age of eight and was very soon jamming at early bluegrass festivals and fiddlers conventions. He lived in Denmark in the early seventies and attended a Danish High School. There he was fortunate to play music and become close friends with the talented guitarist, Mike Wollenberg, who currently resides in the woods of Canyon, California. Several years later, back in the states again, Peter started entering guitar contests and he eventually went on to take top honors at the National Flatpicking Championship in Winfield, Kansas in 1988, after taking second place there in 1986.

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Todd Phillips is the bassist of choice for many of the most innovative, as well as traditional, acoustic instrumental and bluegrass recordings made since the mid-1970s. A two-time Grammy Award winner and founding member of the original David Grisman Quintet, Phillips has made a career of consistently performing and recording with acoustic music’s finest and most creative artists. His tone, timing, and subtly intricate bass lines make him one of the few real stylists on acoustic bass, and he is among the very best practitioners of the instrument on the scene.

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This Tucson-based alt-Americana trio specializes in tightly voiced three-part harmonies and well crafted arrangements on washboard, banjo and electric guitar. Their genres range from gospel, old-timey and Appalachian to alt/country and originals, as well as big band harmonies most recently heard in Tucson's 2011 All Souls concert at the Rialto with Calexico. Their music is available for purchase online, or for more information visit their website at www.silverthreadtrio.com

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