Hale Family
We play mainly instrumentals in Bluegrass style on the guitar and mandolin (Chris) and the fiddle (Rose).
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We seldom play live except for contests in mandolin, guitar and fiddle. Chris won the 2005 Doc Watson guitar championship and 2nd in the Merlefest mandolin championship before that.
Your musical influences
Doc Watson, Cody Kilby, Sam Bush, Grisman....
What equipment do you use?
Fostex digital recorder. Scoffield mandolin and Gallagher guitar.
Anything else?
Chris is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in Economics. He graduated in 3 years with BS and a honors degree summa cum laude.
Chris is also a college level tennis player.
