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About Me

I'm a violinist/fiddler, mandolinist, guitarist, songwriter and composer. I have played and written music of various styles including country, rock, bluegrass, classical, progressive rock and jazz fusion.I have toured with Buddy Jewell as fiddle/utility player since 2005 and as bandleader since 2007. I toured U.S. Military installations in Iraq with Aaron Tippin in 2007. In the summer of 2008 I'll be on tour with the Honky Tonk Tailgate Party in the band for Mark Wills, Trent Willmon, Ray Scott, and Buddy Jewell.I have been a member of Bogus Pomp, the world's foremost Frank Zappa tribute ensemble since 1999.I was the bandleader, principal composer, violinist, and guitarist for Alabama based progressive-fusion-jam band Iratowns from 1995-2006.I was concertmaster of the Auburn University Symphony Orchestra from 1993-1996.I have collaborated onstage with Col. Bruce Hampton, Jeff Sipe, Napoleon Murphy Brock (The Mothers of Invention), Future Man (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones), John Herman (Widespread Panic), Leftover Salmon, Rollin' in the Hay and Taylor Hicks, among many others. I have performed numerous times at the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium, as well as at Dolphins stadium in Miami and the Paris Country Music Festival in France. See below left for details about these songs.

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Member Since: 1/21/2008
Band Members: I have composed a multimedia presentation about my trip to Iraq with aaron Tippin. If you would like to see this, send me an email address and I will pass it along.
Influences: Violin/fiddle:Mark O'Connor, Vassar Clements, Stuart Duncan, L.Shankar, Jean Luc Ponty, Jerry Goodman, Itzhak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov, Hilary Hahn Guitar: Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend, John McLaughlin, Adrian Belew, Jerry Outlaw, John Petrucci, Steve Vai, Bryan Sutton General/Composition: Zappa, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bela Fleck, Townshend, Led Zeppelin, Charlie Daniels, Trey Anastasio,Rush, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mahler, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky
Sounds Like: NOTES on the SONGS STONEGATE PROPER: music by Iratowns; violin: DC; recorded in Revere, MA and New Market, AL 1998 AGNES DAY: written by Steven Senn and performed here by Iratowns, in studio in Atlanta in 2002. DC is featured on fiddle, mandolin, lead acoustic guitar, and bass vocal. ANALOGY: My piece-de-resistance as a composer; DC: words, music, violin, lead guitar, harmony vocal; recorded by Iratowns in Demopolis, AL in 2002. KAVORKA: Recorded by Iratowns in Atlanta, 2002. DC: words, music, and lead guitar APOLOGY: Words, music, lead guitar, harmony vocal by DC; performed by Iratowns LIVE at the Pourhouse, Raleigh, NC 2001 IRATOWNS: DC; Brian Lewis: keyboards; Sid Crigler: drums, vocals; John Dent: bass guitar, vocals; Steven Senn: lead vocal, rhythm guitar; Jack Hemby: lead vocal, rhythm guitar
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None