Allstar Academy - Banjo, Mandolin and Fiddle

Mike Saunders		Mike Saunders has been a preforming Celtic musician and music teacher in the Pacific Northwest for more than thirty years. Coming from a backround in classical guitar, he played folk music in southern California from his high school days, and relocated to Seattle in 1965. He has played at virtually all the major folk venues and festivals in the area, and has been on the staff of many folk music camps and workshops including The Festival Of American Fiddle Tunes in PortTownsend, The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, The Northwest Regional Folklife Festival, The Vancouver Folk Festival, The Islands FolkFestival in Duncan B.C. In 1980 he received   a grant from the National Endowment For The Arts to study fiddle with the lgendary master fiddler Jerry Holland in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and is now performing and teaching the Cape Breton  fiddle style in the Puget Sound area. Mike is currently performing solo and with many different friends including Magical Strings, Dale Russ, and his latest band "Rogue Moon", and he is teaching folk instruments at Allstar Guitar in Gig Harbor.