Hello! I'm an all-round trad-music hack, dance band musician and teacher. Been at this Irish music caper since the mid-1970s.
Fiddle is my first love even if I had to stop playing it in the mid-1990s when I developed focal dystonia (or the yips) in my bowing arm. Fiddling is still the foundation of my understanding of the music and of my playing of the other instruments I turned to "on the rebound" - mainly whistle, and more lately button box.
Living in Montreal for the past quarter-century, before that England, and for a while in the early 1980s, Australia, where playing for a couple of years with the Melbourne band of legend, Poteen, was a formative experience and major highlight of my not-so brilliant career. (For more about Poteen the band, see Poteen the member: http://www.thesession.org/members/display/41611 how are ye Paul?)
Tunes in Jeeves Tones's tunebook: 0
| Gan Ainm | reel | February 12th 2010 |
| The New Phone | hornpipe | February 11th 2010 |
| Hommage A Dorothee | waltz | September 27th 2004 |
| Gillan's Apples | jig | July 30th 2003 |
| Mr. O'Connor | waltz | November 28th 2001 |
| Traditional Music On The Hammer Dulcimer | John Rea | January 29th 2007 |
| The Irish Concertina | Noel Hill | September 19th 2003 |
| Brother Steve's Irish squeezebox links | January 25th 2007 |
| Wassis one then? | August 22nd 2007 |
| Louis McManus Memorial Concert Melbourne May 8 | April 25th 2005 |
| Louis McManus d. 12/12/2004 | December 12th 2004 |
| Dorothy Hogan | September 27th 2004 |
| Mike Donaghy RIP | September 20th 2004 |
| Discussions | Re: The Irish Get All the Breaks | May 24th 2012 |
| Discussions | Re: Chieftains at the Albert Hall. | May 22nd 2012 |
| Discussions | Re: Anyone know the name of this see - Link ! | May 4th 2012 |
| Discussions | Re: Anyone know the name of this see - Link ! | May 4th 2012 |
| Discussions | Re: Kevin Burke and the Waving bow | May 4th 2012 |