Sean is a guitarist, fiddler, and banjo enthusiast hailing from Eastern Massachusetts. He started playing violin at age 8 and grew up in a house filled with Bluegrass and classical music. Since then he has fallen in love with the Celtic music tradition. Sean studied guitar with Simon Lace. At 19, he is a first year at Bard College in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley, where he studies German and mathematics, and plays violin in Bard’s community orchestra. When he’s not playing for contra dances, Sean enjoys baking, doing Tai Chi, and hiking. He attended the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School weekend in 2019, as well as the Scottish String Fling at the Ashokan Center in 2023 and 2024.