"I am happy to announce the release of a new CD entitled SOUTHERN SUMMITS. It is a gathering of 21 fiddle-banjo duets played by me on fiddle together with Ken Perlman on banjo.

  Ken and I have been making music together since we met a few years ago at Rocky Mountain Music Camp. Though he is known to many for his "melodic clawhammer" style of playing tunes from Prince Edward Island and other places in eastern Canada, I'm proud to say that I lured him back into the Southern repertory on which he had originally learned banjo in the 1970s. We developed a way of presenting great old Southern tunes that could be called "duets," where the two instruments are balanced in conversation with each other.