Whew! Just July has been an incredible adventure of fiddling, teaching and performing all over the place; with a Fiddle Academy Week in Grand Targhee and a full-on Solar Eclipse in August, I don't know if I can stand the thrills. But today I was able to get back into the AW studio responding to some very interesting videos from my beloved students here... so challenging and fun!


Where to begin? Well, how about July 5, with my fellow AW Perfesser Mike Block's Incredible String Camp held in Florida (if you only do one camp all year, it should be this!)


From there on to Oregon and the amazing Northwest String Summit, playing with Yonder Mountain and the amazing fiddle Allie Kral,

also sitting in on a chuck Berry tribute with some scary-good guitarists such as Arthue Lee Land and Tyler Grant, a whole set with fellow AW Guityar perfesser Scott Law, and sets with dobro master Sally Van Meter and songwriter Benny Galloway.

and the unbelievable Rushad Eggleston, which continued as a mini-tour of the Pacific Northwest with Rushad, ending up at the Guild Of American Luthier's big convention in Washington this year.