Jerry Bird, Dorchester, UK
Jerry Bird is known principally as a fiddle player, and has played in various folk, and folk-rock bands for more years than he cares to remember. He learned to play guitar in his teenage years, and was mostly self-taught. He was encouraged to teach by the award-winning fingerstyle guitarist Terry Lees, and became a member of the Registry of Guitar Tutors in 2010. He currently performs with the folk-rock band State of Undress, and also plays many solo gigs, playing a mixture of contemporary and traditional folk, along with his own self-penned material. He is also a writer, and has had three books published in the field of folklore, including ‘Songs From the Magical Tradition’, an exploration of the stranger aspects of traditional British folk song.