biography
Adam's music is alive, imperfect, dynamically fluid, and colorful. Raised in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California and Boulder, Colorado, Adam came first to Ireland in 2004 and based himself in Ennis, County Clare. He has been teaching and performing for the last 10 years.

Having grown up in America in places where the strength of the musical culture was in its world diversity rather than local roots, Adam's choice to pursue Irish traditional music arose purely from a specific, aesthetic resonance with the Irish sound. Over the years, at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon fiddle camp, and various workshops in America and Ireland, he has had the chance to study with many of today's living tradition-bearers. His exposure to diverse influences makes Adam's music, in a sense, deeply American, while his pursuit of sound has led him to focused expression through the Irish idiom. Within the rapidly developing culture of traditional music, suffused and enriched by a global exchange of ideas, Adam's fiddle playing floats in a spatial blend of regional style.