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Robin Bullock
Biography
Imaginative flatpicking and an expertise in the musical traditions of Scotland, Ireland and Brittany are combined through the virtuosic playing of Washington, D.C. multi-instrumentalist Robin Bullock. Balancing a solo career with work with the John Whelan Band, three trios - Helicon, Greenfire and Travellers - and a percussive dance ensemble, Footworks, Bullock has showed a mastery of a lengthy list of stringed instruments. "The Baltimore City Paper" referred to Bullock as "one of those guys who can play just about anything with strings disgustingly well", while, "Classical Guitar Magazine" called him, "a musician whose technical skill and stylistic expertise are second to none".

Inspired by the playing of Doc and Merle Watson, Bullock began playing guitar at the age of seven. Although he studied piano and learned basic music theory and harmony, his limited sight-reading skills led him to focus on stringed instruments. While he played with bluegrass bands, after graduating from high school, he became frustrated by his lack of commercial success and temporarily left music to become a veterinarian assistant. A turning point in Bullock's musical career came in 1986 when he met wooden flute player Chris Norman and hammer dulcimer player Ken Kolodner at the Deer Creek Fiddler's Convention in Westminster, Maryland.
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