ABOUT

DAVID BOYDEN: violin, hardanger d’amore, hardanger fiddle, etc.

David Boyden is a violinist and fiddler born and bred in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, earned a Bachelors of Music from San Francisco State University, and now works as a freelance musician and educator. In addition to Kaptain Bottletop, he plays fiddles and other such things in groups working in a variety of genres (inquire within). In addition to the violin, he plays the hardanger d’amore (an incredible 10-stringed fiddle built by the Norwegian luthier Salve Håkedal), as well as a 7-string electric violin built by John Jordan. He actively plays the hardanger fiddle and the traditional folk music of Norway, and also enjoys playing big mandolins in his spare time. An avid organology nerd, he hasn’t decided whether or not his next instrument will be a vielle or a pochette. From 2012 to 2014, he served as an intern for the Chrysalis Foundation in San Francisco, performing the music of Cris Forster on his original acoustic instruments tuned in just intonation.

LEE CORBIE-WELLS: 5-string violin, hardanger d’amore, vocals

Lee Corbie-Wells has been playing violin since the age of 6. Her father, a music teacher in San Francisco (Lee’s hometown) and her mother, a music teacher in the Oakland Public School District, taught her Celtic and American tunes by ear, fostering her love of folk music—before she moved on to other teachers. Although she primarily pays Celtic and American fiddle music, Lee has taken her years of experience in Blues and folk improvisation and branched out into explorations of Rock, Jazz, Swing, Ragtime, and Latin genres. Lee is a language enthusiast. She also teaches violin and voice in Berkeley.