I began my musical journey at the age of six, when I first saw Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley at the fiddler's convention in Galax, VA in 1986. For my seventh birthday my parents bought me a fiddle and private lessons, which I continued for the next seven years or so. Although my early musical training encompassed a variety of idioms, my main focus was traditional 'old-time' dance tunes. I spent much of my childhood traveling to fiddler's conventions around Florida and North Carolina with my brother Matt and parents Lo and Mary Gordon, with whom I played in a family band and learned many tunes.
After my family's relocation to the mountains of North Carolina in 1993, my parents founded Celestial Mountain Music and Cedar Mountain Banjos . In addition to the fiddle, I also play the guitar, bass and clawhammer banjo, and have ventured into bluegrass, Celtic, swing, country and other related forms of music, new and old. I am currently the fiddler for the High Windy Band , an award-winning contemporary bluegrass group based in Asheville, NC. I also teach private fiddle lessons for all levels and a variety of styles and regularly play dances and other side gigs, as well as an occasional studio session.
I have been working for my dad in the banjo shop for the past couple of years and live with my dog Vassar in a solar-powered cottage that I built on my property.