Miltons Road, Long Sault Creek watershed, McDonalds Corners, Township of Lanark Highlands, County of Lanark, halfway between Ottawa and Kingston, Ontario, Canada, third rock from Sol.

I'm a momentarily unemployed carpenter, stringed instrument junkie, age 42, married 14 years, two kids aged 12 & 8 who are both home sick today. Emily my eldest is learning guitar and flute. My wife Molly fortunately for us has a real job in the health food industry.

I grew up in suburban Ottawa, have lived in one part or another of the Ottawa Valley almost all my life. Strong fiddling and stepdancing tradition here.

I play mostly Celtic-with-a-Scottish-emphasis, as well as Canadian folk music, on guitar, mandolin, mandola, fiddle, sometimes hammered dulcimer, whistle etc.

I'm a strong Canadian nationalist and an unrepentant socialist, and seem to spend most of my Net time trying to explain Canadian politics to Americans--I'm really not sure why, glutton for punishment I suppose. (I don't care about Clinton's sex life, but when he honored Ramblin' Jack and a bunch of other worthy artists last week and made a speech that said "The rest of the world looks to America for cultural leadership..."--I guess he didn't have _any_ idea how freakin offensive a remark that was.)

Sorry. Soapbox off. I just ran across the Mudcat a couple of weeks ago when I tried to look up a song on the DT, and have become a regular habitue...which is fun.

Bill "No Nickname" Cameron