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Stuart Mason is known in the California traditional music community for his driving, rhythmic guitar, melodic mandola picking, traditional singing style, and inability to hold his whiskey. He has appeared on stage at the Feakle International Music Festival in Ireland with distinguished East Clare fiddler Vincent Griffin. Stuart has been on guitar teaching staff at the CTMS Solstice Festival and Lark Camp. He helps to lead a weekly Irish music session at the Morro Bay Brewing Company, and teaches guitar and mandolin-family instruments at his home in Los Osos.
Born Stuart Mason Helmintoller in Buckhannon, West Virginia, he spent his early years in West Virginia and southern Ohio. After high school, he supported himself playing bluegrass and country music. He graduated from Ohio State in 1981 and returned to West Virginia, where he lived in Upshur County, worked as a park ranger and traveled to local fairs and festivals from the eastern panhandle to the Kentucky border. While living in the mountains in the old family house, he was exposed to the oldest forms of Appalachian fiddle music, which led him directly to traditional Irish music. From then, he was hooked. In 1981 Stuart left West Virginia and moved to Hawaii for 12 years. On Maui, he performed and recorded albums with acoustic trad bands String Fever and AnRil. In 1997 he returned to the mainland with his wife Joyce and settled in the seaside community of Los Osos, California. Since relocating to California, he has performed at many festivals, concert halls, pubs, and coffee houses--too many to list and update here! Visit the Stuart Mason web site. Send Stuart an email |