Ed Sweeney

There are experiences that have changed me. I had one of them ten years ago (July 2014) when I traveled to Taiwan to perform with my friend Yang Wei. 

I hadn’t done a lot of performing or recording between 1989…

I had finished teaching for the evening. As I walked to my car a group of fiddle students were walking in for their lessons.  I heard a voice say, “I hear you have a zipper too!”.  

She smiled as I…

When you connect to something artistically it can produce an emotional response as strong as religious faith. Sometimes, for me, those responses are physical. My mother would tell stories of how hard it was to bring me to Sunday Mass…

I like to think I know what I am doing. I want to believe I can manifest my artistic future. Yet experience has taught me that I always wind up in a different place than where I thought I would…

Lindsey Lerner had me as a guest on her podcast Cost of the Status Quo.  

Lindsey's podcasts explore why we do the things we do. 

Enjoy!

A few weeks ago BWH Music Group sent out a call to independent artists for Christmas Music. Starting December 1st they will be playing Christmas Music 24/7 on their network. 

Three selections from each of my instrumental Christmas recordings "Inside…

I received an ego boost the other night with the arrival of an email via my website.  The writer had been compiling a list of tracks played at Disneyland's Frontierland between 1992 – 2012 and came across my track The…

A few months ago while googling I stumbled on a music camp, featuring Richard Thompson, called Frets and Refrains.  Two of the counselors at the camp were Martin Simpson and Happy Traum – guitarists I always wanted to…

I recently returned from the Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City. A phrase I heard from a few artists and venues was that I play Cover Songs! I didn't take this as a compliment.

It used to be…

I usually don't watch the Kentucky Derby, but how could I resist watching the replay of the "biggest long shot ever!"

What struck me was how the announcer completely missed what was going on in real time.

The announcer's "blinders"…