Playing Since: 1964
Experience Level: Expert/Professional

Interests:
[Socializing]

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male
Age: 74

My Instruments:
guitar, electric bass, tenor and five-string banjos, mandolin, keyboards.

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Vinta, The Goodbye Girls, Oliver Schroer, Bela Bartok, Bruce Molsky, Manteca,

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Created 2/28/2023
Last Visit 3/31/2023

David Woodhead's melodic and subtle approach applies not just to the electric bass but to his writing and other instrumental work as well. His name appears on some 350 recording projects and he’s worked with many influential artists including Perth County Conspiracy, Stan Rogers, Oliver Schroer, Gil Scott- Heron, and David Sanborn. His live gigs have included working with Malagasy guitarist Donné Roberts, classical-folk fusioneers Ensemble Polaris and veteran jazzers Manteca, as well as touring internationally with master songwriter James Keelaghan. David has done instruction at the Folk Alliance International conference (Kansas City), Haliburton Winter Folk Camp, the Goderich Celtic College and Ontario’s The Woods. He's been an invited guest improvisor at Arraymusic and Casey Sokol’s improv soirees at York University, and he's done a Music Residency at the Banff Centre, working on music which led to his most recent Confabulation CD, Tunnels and Visions. ?His own music draws from the intimacy of the folk world, the harmonic sensibilites of jazz, and a sense of precision from classical arranging, with room for freedom in individual expression and improvisation. David's Confabulation ensemble has a somewhat exotic and rambunctious nature, while the more recent Oriana Quartet is focused on taking a folk-jazz chamber music approach. ? Was that you playing the bass up there? Oh, you’re delicious!” - Odetta http://www.davidwoodhead.com/