Steve Pollitt

Born into a family of vaudeville and circus musicians, Steve Pollitt was 5 years old in Indianola, Mississippi when he was able to follow groups of singers as they picked their way through the small cotton plots in town, singing field hollers. Later he would survive adolescence by camping out in the choir loft of The Church of the Holy Spirit in Wayland, Massachusetts. Here his interest in early hymns led him to Early Music, Early Instruments and happily now to Exotic Woodwinds. His music continues to be a fusion of Celtic Dance Tunes, Renaissance Hymns and Country Blues,
When he began to play in public the children quickly claimed him as their own and for thirty years he has been performing as a children's musician, by acclamation as it were. Now that his children have all grown he finds that he himself has matured and now plays material suitable for grown ups.