
DUDLEY-BRIAN SMITH – Dudley-Brian has been a professional singer/songwriter
and musician for more than 4 decades, starting out in the late 1960's in folk
and folk-pop bands and in various choral ensembles. While mostly seen
behind the guitar, he is the group's multi-instrumentalist performing on
guitars, mandolin, autoharp, bagpipes, smallpipes, harmonica, and recorders,
among others. He is a published author of stories, poems and articles and
has a second career as a journalist. The group's lead songwriter/composer
and arranger, Dudley-Brian has lived in a wide variety of places and done
things as diverse as sailor, waiting tables, recording engineer, teacher,
hospital orderly, newspaper reporter, honor guard bugler, carpenter, house
painter, irrigation canal digger, farm hand, delivery driver, cook and
researcher - feeling experience only fuels the fires of the imagination. During
his long career, he has played music as diverse as bluegrass, reggae, rock,
jazz and country.