Bob has always had a love of music. As a teenager he was in a folk singing group call the “Cambric Boys” in junior high and high school with three other guys from New Jersey. They played in bars, PTA meetings, business lunches and any other place that would have them.  He also played baritone horn in high school in the marching band and orchestra. Upon graduating from Lafayette College in Pennslyvania with a degree in Law and Government, and not wanting to see the inside of a classroom again, he took his guitar and decided to head west.

          After moving to Colorado, he ended up taking a beat up old guitar on backpacking trips as far as 100 miles at a time, much to the surprise of other hikers whom he met on the trail. He’s taken a guitar and his singing down the Grand Canyon and many other big western rivers in his rafting trips, on his rock climbing expeditions to Yosemite Valley and Big Sur, and even taken his guitar and his voice on mission trips to Haiti. Currently he also sings with the Valley Fellowship Church in Buena Vista.

           On a 6 week trek through the Himalayas in 1985 in Nepal, Bob even ending up singing in little villages along the way. After he got back to the USA Bob decided he better get involved in some plays.  Bob had lead roles in a number of High Country Fines Arts Association plays in Chaffee County, his favorite role being the character “Fagin” in the play “Oliver” He’s also had lead roles in a number of plays which involved singing in his church. Not really knowing much about “Celtic” music when asked to join the “Mountain Minstrels”, but one to never pass up a singing opportunity, he of course said “ why not?”