With Peter Daffy

One week after I took a mandolin out of my bedroom and into the wild world of busking, I was invited to the Cygnet Folk Festival. The first act I saw was a singer songwriter who had enlisted some feller to play some mandolin on his songs after an all night session.

At the festival the following year, I found myself in an all night session with the same mandolin player. That was 1998 and I haven’t stopped playing music with Peter. We have had various lineups over the years from RSL favourites The Rare Auld Stock, to our own Funky String Band (Mk. 1, 2 and 3). In 2009 we decided to go out as a duo until the Funky String Band could find a way of touring in an economically viable way.

Throughout my entire musical career Peter has been around in some form or other so playing as a duo comes very easily. We’ve finished our first album together and have a number of other projects up our sleeve so stay tuned for updates!

More recently we have had the distinct pleasure of playing with Dbl Bass extraordinaire Shannon Birchall. What a treat!