Bard of the Old Wheel

The Bard of the Old Wheel grew up in a musical household, surrounded by traditional music from around the world. He first played a hurdy gurdy at the Chants de Vielles festival in June of 2023, and it was love at first crank. He bought his first hurdy gurdy that very weekend from luthier Jean-Sebastian Dufour, and has spent an hour or so playing nearly every day since then. Most people his age are listening to popular music, but you can usually find him listening to the same French or French-Canadian traditional music he loves to play. He has played at the Ohio Renaissance Festival for the last two years.