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JIM YATES Solo Artist & Present and Past Band Member of: Kirby and Yates, McCormick, Otonabee River Boys |
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Jim Yates comes from a musical family.
His father was a singer, he is married to a musician, his four
siblings all play music, his two sons and most of his nephews and
nieces are involved in music. Even the family sewing machine was a
'Singer'**. He started playing music on a ukulele that a cousin
forgot at his home and bought his first guitar circa 1960. Over the
years he has added banjo, mandolin, Autoharp, accordion, concertina,
bouzouki, mountain dulcimer and mouth harp to his arsenal. He also
owns a fiddle, but plays it only in the privacy of his own home when
his wife is at work and the cats are both outside.
During the sixties he played folk music at hootenanies in school gyms and church basements in the Hamilton area. His introduction to bluegrass was seeing the York County Boys at the 1961 Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia. In the wilder days of the sixties Jim also played with the fledgling Velvet Underground when they came to Hamilton's McMaster University as part of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable.* After moving to the Port Hope/Cobourg area in the early seventies, he played in several folk, bluegrass and Celtic groups and became involved with promoting acoustic music through Folk At The Forum and the Waterfront Festival. Jim teaches guitar, banjo and mandolin and has had articles and arrangements published in the Banjo Newsletter and the Autoharpoholic Magazine. His tune Robbie Burns' Day has been recorded by the Peterborough folk group Freshwater Trade. As well as playing with McCormick, Jim enjoys performing eclectic acoustic music with Al Kirby as part of the duo Kirby & Yates. Kirby & Yates have recently released a CD titled Sittin' In the Kitchen which will be available at both Kirby and Yates and McCormick gigs. * There were no musical instruments
involved. He was helping out McMaster's Arts Festival Commitee and
after the concert Jim and his brother played frisbee with the band
members while the stage was struck. Jim says,"At least it makes
a great story." JIM YATES HAS GUESTED WITH: PETERBOROUGH
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