Hello, friends!
I'm Sean Earnest, age 18, and I live in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. I play guitar (tuned DADGAD) and have recently added the bouzouki to my repertoire. I've also been dabbling with tenor banjo recently.
My main influences are (in no particular order): John Doyle, Solas, Dervish, Daithi Sproule, The Mulcahy Family, John Blake, Angelina Carberry, Lunasa, my teacher Zan McLeod, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, The Bothy Band, Planxty, Teada, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Liz Carroll, Paul Brady, Tommy Peoples, Trian, Altan, Danu, the "Live At Mona's" gang, Bohola, and many more.
Non-ITM Interests:
~ I enjoy all kinds of music outside the ITM sphere, but none more than the music and philosophy of the Grateful Dead! I am a proud "Deadhead" and enjoy playing their music and mixing ITM with the music of the Dead. Hey, the Chieftains once opened for Jerry Garcia!
My Instruments:
~ My guitar is a Martin D-18V [http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/choosing/guitars.php?p=m&m=D-18V] I have had some work done on it: a retrofit for Waverly vintage tuners, bone nut and compensated saddle installation, and I had the action raised. I like it high!
~ My bouzouki was made by Phil Crump [http://www.pwcrumpco.com/] It's a B-3 model in Sitka Spruce and East Indian Rosewood with maple body binding, backstrip, and endblock. It has a really pretty shaped pearl rosette, pearl fretboard slugs, and a gorgeous pearl and abalone "Doves Of Peace" peghead inlay that I designed myself. Here's a link to some pictures: [http://www.geocities.com/jrjerrygarcia/index.html]
~ My tenor banjo is a Slingerland Night Hawk, "one of the good ones", so I'm told.
Tunes in DADGADLad's tunebook: 69
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