David Whitaker Biography

In the 1960s David was playing "folk" music, first in the cabarets of Tokyo, then in the coffeehouses of Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Cleveland and Akron. In 1970 he moved to Hamilton, ON and was a regular on the Hamilton-Toronto circuit, playing such venues as Campell's Coffeehouse, Fiddler's Green and local festivals. In the mid 1970s life got in the way and he dropped out of music for 23 years.

Now he's back and, after a shift toward his first musical love, playing mostly acoustic blues. He still throws in an occasional old-style country tune and an even rarer pop tune that's worth it, but mostly it's blues in the Piedmont style on 6- and 12-string Guilds and a National steel guitar.  

David got hooked on blues after close encounters with masters such as Josh White, Mance Lipsomb and Brownie McGee. He has studied guitar with more contemporary greats such as Paul Geremia, John Cephas, slide whiz Steve James and the late John Jackson. 

In recent years David has been enthusiastically received at pubs, coffeehouses, concerts and festivals in the Detroit-Windsor area, elsewhere in Ontario, Michigan and as far away as North Carolina. David's first CD, a 20-song effort called Blues, Beans & Botherations, was released in January '07.

Tim Nolan Biography

In 1984, after having been a disc jockey for 9 years, and having 15 years experience playing the guitar, I decided to combine the two and began to perform live music instead! That was 23 years ago, and I'm still going strong today!  

Having been doing this for so long now has allowed me the chance to perform in all types of venues and has also allowed me the opportunity to play all types of music, to satisfy many different audiences and to create an atmosphere of fun for thousands of people through the years!  

I have been truly fortunate enough to have performed in venues all over the Chicagoland area, the US Eastern shore, the Central Ohio area as well as a lot of places in Ontario, Canada.