Dave Hum

Biography

Dave started out learning to sing and play the guitar aged eight, then after finishing college he began busking and getting work as a classical guitarist based in Dorset, then later joined various bands with styles of music ranging from swing, jazz, latin and blues. He sang and played guitar for eight years with "Street Level", a wacky busking jazz band, and won the 1996 International busking competition held in Birmingham UK by BBC Radio 2. Around this time he was visiting Bournemouth one day...

Dave started out learning to sing and play the guitar aged eight, then after finishing college he began busking and getting work as a classical guitarist based in Dorset, then later joined various bands with styles of music ranging from swing, jazz, latin and blues.

He sang and played guitar for eight years with "Street Level", a wacky busking jazz band, and won the 1996 International busking competition held in Birmingham UK by BBC Radio 2.

Around this time he was visiting Bournemouth one day, which is on the south coast and stopped to listen to a family band that were street performing in the town square. They were called "Same Train Different Teapot" and the instruments they played were a banjo, a mandolin, a lap dulcimer and a double bass. He really liked the sound of the music they were making and got chatting to the banjo player Mike Preston who organised bluegrass gatherings in the area and invited him along, which is how he got hooked on the music and keen to learn how to play the banjo and the mandolin.

At present he can often be found on his own performing celtic, old time and bluegrass tunes on the banjo
in the streets around the south of England and enjoy introducing people to this wonderful instrument
and the traditional tunes from long ago. He has been street performing for thirty years now and also
composes original instrumental tunes, some of which can be heard here on his website, myspace or facebook pages:
http://www.davehum.com
http://www.myspace.com/davehum
http://www.facebook.com/davehum.banjoplayer
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