David Bunn

Deep End Sessions is the brainchild of me, David Bunn, a visual artist from the piedmont of North Carolina, living and working in Los Angeles and Santa Paula since the early 1980s. I grew up with Round Peak old-time music and Bluegrass and musical elders like Tommy Jarrell and Doc Watson. I am a guitar noodler who loves Appalachian String Band music. While travelling home for time with family, as one does in mid-life, I began attending music camps such as Augusta in Elkins, West Virginia. I followed that trail to Blackpot in Eunice, Louisiana, fiddle contests in Colorado, Texas and on the West Coast, and on into Canada with Nimble Fingers Bluegrass camp, among others. I took a few workshops and paid close attention, and began to think about the old farmhouse in Santa Paula, c 1908, where my wife and I lived as a venue for doing something with and for the many travelling musicians in these genres I was interested in.