John is the newest member of the Consort, though his playing history, in first folk and American Old-timey music and then the Scottish and Irish repertoire, stretches back nearly forty years. An internationally known performer, arranger and writer of Irish and Scottish oriented music for fingerstyle guitar, John has released one solo book/CD collection of his arrangements by Mel Bay and is part of several anthologies and publications through them as well. Over the past decade or so, he has guested and subbed on several occasions with YCC and its precursor band, the Irish Brigade, and Doug & Phil were featured guest artists on his first solo CD, "So Inclined" in 1996. In 2008 John, with minimal persuasion, completed his transition to the Dark Side and joined YCC on a more permanent basis. He currently divides his time between teaching, performance with YCC, the Cincinnati- based group Silver Arm and occasional Ohio area performance dates with Folksinger/songwriter Tom Paxton.