Twenty years ago I left Yorkshire England and crossed the pond to marry a Canadian. I'm an ex-landscaper, ex software developer. Now resident in Grey County with wonderful wife Anne de Haas (professional photographer, check out her work online here and here).

I love Georgian Bay! So much beauty! (Here's a few of my Instagram photos ). I love Ontario's wide open spaces. The sense of freedom those wide open spaces evoke. The Bruce Peninsula! Bon Echo! The North Shore of Lake Superior! Killarney Provincial Park!

(There's so many wonderful places in Ontario that it's hard to know which to love most...)!

I play solo with an acoustic guitar. Some of my own, and some covers. Some country, some blues, folk, pop and even the occasional classical piece.

I've played gigs at the Midland Tiffin Bay Folk Club (featured artist), in Georgetown at the Silvercreek Bistro and the Shepherd's Crook, in Acton at the Red Harp, the Ark Rockwood, Toronto's Free Times Cafe, at the Leeds UK Library pub with The Medicine Men. At the Bridge Inn in Pateley Bridge UK and at the Wallasey UK Embassy Club, among others.

Growing up in the UK I used to particularly enjoy going to folk clubs, where real, old, traditional music is kept very much alive. The traditional folk music of England, Scotland and Ireland is so rich with great melodies!

British 'folk-blues' acoustic guitarist Bert Jansch was also a big influence in my formative years - Jansch mixed formidable technique with creativity in unique and often genre-bending ways.

I'm particularly fascinated by the process of writing my own material: the craft of making the tweakable elements of melody, rhythm, lyrics work together to create a memorable and evocative song. Some of my songs are woven around the landscape we inhabit- the Great Lakes, the limestone cliffs of the Escarpment, and the wind that shapes the trees on the rugged granite shoreline of Georgian Bay.