Who is this Fiddlin' Mike?

Well...

In 1980 I came over from England to visit my brother who lives in Southern California, and heard a strange kind of music called Blue Grass, so went out and bought me a banjo!. After taking a few lessons at the Blue Ridge Pickin' Parlor in Canoga Park and meeting some new friends with similar interests, we started having jams. I soon realised that one banjo is enough in a group, and since we did'nt have a fiddler, hey presto, bought myself a fiddle !. That led me down different paths, and I joined the California State Old Time Fiddlers Assoc., which in turn introduced me to Fiddle Contests. Fiddling is now a serious hobby, and my teachers have included Phil Salazar from Ventura, J'Anna Jacoby from Los Angeles and Dick and Lisa Barrett from Raplje in Montana. Now I live in California City, and have done so since the Christmas of '89/'90.

As of May 1997 I am the Membership Secretary for the California State Old Time Fiddlers Association. If you would like information about joining, feel free to e-mail me...click on Fiddlin' Mike at the bottom of the page.

My fiddling interests are Contest Fiddling (Texas style), Bluegrass and Old Time. I would like to get into Cajun music (I own a Cajun style squeeze box), if I could only find some musicians with the same interest.

Go to a list of fiddling contest events in California for 2000

click here...

Take a look at California City's Heritage Days Contest

click here...

Interesting Fiddling related sites..

(I am trying to compile an URL listing of other fiddlers with Web pages. Please drop me a line if you have one or know of somebody who has one.)Fiddlin' Mike

This Home Page is continually under construction using The HotDog Web Editor Sausage Software's home page. Graphics are viewed and stored using VuePrint Pro/32 Hamrick Software.Graphics are edited using LView Pro/32MMedia Research Corp.

Thanks go to the following people who have helped me at various times with my home page. Mark & Tammy at CalCity Internet... Richard Walpole... Larry Boyles

Send me comments good or bad ! Fiddlin' Mike

...8/15/97