Friends and Colleagues
Mountain High Music, our Booking Agency
Frogville Records Pioneering NM recording studio/record label, which ThaMuseMeant records on.
ThaMuseMeant
COYO Our percussionist, Dale Largent has a great group in his hometown of Bend, OR.

Furnace Mountain Band Some old friends and great musicians from Virginia
yonder mountain string band
the slip
the motet
Kaki King Creative New York guitarist with great compositions - an old friend from the Brooklyn Browngrass, New York subway days
libby kirkpatrick libby is a wonderfully soulful and talented singer/songwriter
Ari Zucker A great guitarist and friend in Seattle.
Jamie Stillway Our good friend: a great fingerstyle guitarist and David and Enion's comadre in "THE DRUNKEN FLIES
danny barnes legendary banjo picker and songwriter and formerly the formulator of the bad livers
darol anger the fantastic fiddler and originator of too many great groups to count, and a longtime hero of enion's
mike marshall the masterful mandolinist and a hero of dave's
casey driessen a great, unique fiddler out of Nashville
Vagabond Opera Portland pals in Euro-cabaret Mayhem! Jason Flores also plays with these guys
anti-social chamber music a bunch of fantastic, creative young composers and musicians based out of brooklyn, new york.
The Everyone Orchestra Our friend Matt Butler's brainchild - a collaborative improv jam of friends and heros in the music world we've been luck enough to be a part of.
     
Here are some instrument and equipment makers we dig:
john sullivan mandolins dave's favorite archtop instrument maker - dave plays a sullivan acoustic mandolin and sullivan archtop guitar
Breedlove Guitars.
Jayson Bowerman Jayson from Breedlove guitars made a wonderful electric mandolin for David.
L.R. Baggs acoustic instrument pick-ups, pre-amps, and cetera - Enion uses their products copiously.
D'addario
Fairbuilt Guitars Martin Fair, a great instrument maker and repairer, and an old friend of David's from Virginia. David owns an excellent electric mandolin by Marty, and Aimee Curl of ThaMuseMeant (one of Dave and Enion's other groups) plays a beautiful 5-string bass he made.

Worthy Causes:
www.gobiodiesel.org Portland biodiesel collective - we're talking to them about modifying our bus, and of course, using biodiesel to power our tours!
www.votetoimpeach.org what else? a place to learn about the movement to impeach the grand imposter -- very active around this inaguration time.
www.commondreams.org alternative news and editorials from around the world, with lots more links.



 
 

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