In all the years I've known Martin, and it's a lot of years believe me, I've never found him other than a genuinely good bloke. He has far more reason than most to play 'big timer' but he doesn't. He loves the music with passion and intensity, and respects the efforts of all who make music at whatever level. He is always ready to play at the smallest folk club, he sits in to listen to all the floor singers, and gives encouragement and advice whenever he can. Martin has many musical gifts and he is prodigal with them all, but his gifts as a gracious, graceful, sensitive man of integrity are what I admire most. I am proud to be a part of a community that includes him.