Passions keep you alive! The last kid to leave the nest was June 2013, so we sold the nest and have been travelling and recuperating from the last couple of decades... or so.  Getting back to the passion. I have been playing music for a long time but haven't gigged for a long time. So after closing down a business in 2008, I have come full circle to the passion of music. This time however I am centering on my own compositions. My Youtube channel is called Jazz Mandolin but I am primarily a guitarist, mostly an acoustic guitarist at that. I have a wide taste in music jazz (in all it's forms), blues (which is never far away), celtic (I am of Irish/French Acadian descent), bluegrass, honky-tonk (I grew listening to Dad singing Hank Williams) and I'll finish off with the so called world category. What I'm trying to say here is that I like it all. My mission now is to up the ante for my music and spread the love baby.