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TOM MORLEY: email
(fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, tenor banjo) As a classical, folk, bluegrass and swing musician, Tom is one of the most visible violinists on the Gulf Coast. Classically trained with a degree in music education, Tom has earned a living with his violin in almost every conceivable musical direction. He has played professionally on stage or in the recording studio in Celtic, Cajun, country, folk, bluegrass, classical, swing, and jazz styles. He currently enjoys performing regularly with Mithril, bluegrass group Delta Reign, the Silverwood Quartet (eclectic chamber group he co-founded with Mithril flutist Andra Bohnet), and as a violinist with the Mobile Symphony. As a member of "new traditionalist" country artist John Anderson's band in the 1980s, he earned a gold album for his contributions on the album 'Wild and Blue,' which broke new ground in the country-crossover genre. As an Irish/Celtic fiddler, Tom has made multiple trips to Ireland to perform and research the music of County Clare and western Ireland. Along the way, he's studied with and played alongside legendary musicians including Tommy Peoples, Manus and Seamus McGuire, Kevin Burke, Liz Caroll, and Robin Bullock. His composition The Poet of Tolstoy Park was recently featured on Wisconsin Public Radio's A Chapter A Day program and generated exeptional interest from listeners. Tom is an endorser for Barcus-Berry electric violins.

ANDRA BOHNET: email
(Irish flute, whistle, Celtic harp) is a flutist who embraces a rich variety of musical styles and performs on flutes of all shapes and sizes; classical, traditional wooden, baroque and a variety of ethnic instruments, as well as Celtic harp. She holds the post of Professor of Music at the University of South Alabama in Mobile where she teaches flute, music history, and chamber music and is the principal flutist with Mobile Symphony and the Gulf Coast Symphony in Biloxi, MS. Andra is also a founding member of the Silverwood Quartet. As Silverwood's primary arranger, her works appear on all of their CDs, and she has also created the Mithril symphonic orchestrations. She has studied traditional flute playing at the Boxwood Flute Festival in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and is on the faculty at the Wind on the Bay Flute Symposium in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

BEN HARPER: email
(guitar, bass, flute) was raised in a family of musicians and has been playing one instrument or another as long as he can remember. He majored in flute at the University of South Alabama, studying with Mithril's own Andra Bohnet, and received a Bachelor's in music education. He has worked in all aspects of the music business, including retail sales and as an announcer at WHIL Radio in Mobile. Since the mid-1990s, he has performed in a number of jazz and rock bands along the Gulf Coast (actually 9 at last count), and brings a high-energy rock sensibility to the music of Mithril. In addition to being a musician, Ben is the official photographer of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. You can visit his website at www.NotThatBenHarper.com.

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