My Father emigrated from Dublin Ireland, my mother is from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and her family (McLean) had been there for as long as anyone could remember. Anyone familiar with Cape Breton will know that a lot of the Scottish bloodlines there are purer (for lack of a better word) than in Scotland. I believe that the Irish music that my grandfather passed down to my dad and my uncles combined with my mother's East Coast tastes gave me the love of traditional acoustic music.