Robin Bullock

Imaginative flatpicking and an expertise in the musical traditions of Scotland, Ireland, and Brittany are mixed through the virtuosic taking part in of Washington, D.C. multi-instrumentalist Robin Bullock. Balancing a single career with use the John Whelan Music group, three trios – Helicon, Greenfire, and Holidaymakers — and a percussive dance ensemble, Footworks, Bullock shows a mastery of an extended set of stringed devices. The Baltimore Town Paper described him as “one particular guys who are able to play almost anything with strings disgustingly well,” while, Classical Acoustic guitar Magazine known as him, “a musician whose specialized skill and stylistic experience are second to non-e.” Inspired from the playing of Doc and Merle Watson, Bullock started playing acoustic guitar at age seven. Although he analyzed piano and discovered fundamental music theory and tranquility, his limited sight-reading abilities led him to spotlight stringed devices. While he used bluegrass rings after graduating from senior high school, he became annoyed by his insufficient commercial achievement and temporarily remaining music to become veterinarian associate. A turning stage in Bullock’s musical profession arrived in 1986 when he fulfilled wooden flute participant Chris Norman and hammer dulcimer participant Ken Kolodner in the Deer Creek Fiddler’s Convention in Westminster, MD. Norman and Kolodner, who experienced released a Celtic-influenced duo recording, Daybreak, were therefore impressed by Bullock’s playing and excitement that they decided to continue like a trio, Helicon. On his debut single recording, Green Areas, released in 1993, Bullock explored the original music of Ireland and Scotland, playing all devices around the record by himself. The record resulted in Bullock finding a main single artist grant in the Maryland Condition Arts Council. His second single outing, Midnight Howl, released in 1996, was nominated for the Grammy award as “Greatest Traditional Folk Record of the entire year” and led to his finding a Washington Region Music award (WAMMIE) as “Folk/Traditional Instrumentalist of the entire year.” His third single record, Between Globe and Sky, released in 1998, highlighted such guests as All Ireland champions Joanie Madden and John Whelan, dobro participant Mike Auldridge, Bruce Hornsby’s reedsman Bobby Browse, and Western world African percussionist Laryea Addy. The record gained Bullock his second WAMMIE award as “Folk/Traditional Documenting of the entire year.” A faculty person in the Swannanoah Gathering at Warren Wilson University in Asheville, NC and Common Surface at Traditional western Maryland University in Westminster, MD, Bullock creates a column, “Celtic and Even more” for CLASSICAL GUITAR mag. His musical profession, however won’t take a back again seat. The brand new millennium noticed the discharge of Lightning Field in early 2001.