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UPCOMING DATeS |
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| July 11 | Wesminster MD |
| July 12-15 | Westminster MD |
| July 17 | Earlville, NY |
| July 24-25 | Cornish, ME |
| July 30-Aug 2 | Stony Plain, AB Canada |
| Aug 6 | Denver, CO |
| Aug 7 | Edgewood, NM |
| Aug 11 | Nashville, TN |
| Aug 12 | Nashville, TN |
| Aug 13 | Midway, KY |
| Aug 14 | Henderson, KY |
| Aug 20 | Gettysburg, PA |
bios / band
Jason Thomas
Mandolin, Fiddle & Vocals
Jason Thomas’s musical roots first took hold at age eight, when he began playing with his family band in southern Ontario. It was then that his dad taught him to play bluegrass mandolin. At twelve his interest in fiddle and set him on a path of research and self-instruction. The result has been mastery of a wide variety of fiddle styles including Bluegrass, Celtic, Country, Gypsy Jazz, Cajun, Western Swing and the French Canadian style that is so much a part of his own musical heritage.
In high school he expanded his interests to include guitar, banjo, bass and viola. He started his own band, began to do studio work, and played around the southern Ontario bluegrass scene. Contest playing became a natural progression. His talent garnered respect from the musical communities both in Canada (winner of the Canadian Open Mandolin Championship) and the state of Florida (winner of the Florida State Championship on fiddle and mandolin) after his family’s move south in 1984.
Since his studies in violin and Music Education at Evangel College in Springfield, MO, Jason has been a full-time professional musician, having toured extensively across the U.S. and overseas. Jason is in high demand around his residence in Orlando, Florida as a side musician in almost every musical genre.
He has toured and recorded three projects with the Montana-based band Kane's River, which charted two singles on Bluegrass Unlimited’s National Bluegrass Survey, recorded with IBMA nominee Mark Johnson along with Tony Rice and the Rice Brothers, and with Ben Winship and David Thompson on the highly-proclaimed "Fishing Music" projects.
In April of 2006, after having been a long-time Front Porch String Band fan, Jason joined the Claire Lynch Band. He appeared on four freshly-recorded tracks from Claire’s anthology cd, "Crowd Favorites" in 2007 and is a primary player on Claire’s newest release “Whatcha Gonna Do” contributing on mandolin, fiddles and harmony vocals.
"Seriously under-sung fiddle/mandolin man Jason Thomas' playing has exactly the right degree of lyricism to match Lynch’s world-class vocals" The Nashville Scene
Find out more information about Jason by visiting www.MySpace.com/jasonthomasfiddle.
Also check out other members of the Claire Lynch Band...
Matt Wingate :: Mark Schatz :: Jason Thomas
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