Leith & Rob's Story
Leith Davis and husband Rob McGregor are members of the Sybaritic Stringband, a Vancouver-based quartet that has been playing for local contradances literally for decades.
Leith plays a variety of traditional styles on the fiddle like Irish, Scottish, Quebecois and American Oldtime. She is also a professor of English and Director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies at SFU.
Rob has been playing the mandolin for 48 years. Over that time, he has played with several local bluegrass bands. These days, he performs with the Little Mountain Trio and hosts a bluegrass and oldtime radio show “In the Pines” on Vancouver Cooperative Radio. Rob is a retired ecologist and entomologist.
Leith and Rob play spirited music from a variety of folk traditions on fiddle, voice and mandolin. Community participation is our goal – So please come to our Celtic Kitchen Party event and sing along or kick up your heels.
Leith & Rob's Story
Leith Davis and husband Rob McGregor are members of the Sybaritic Stringband, a Vancouver-based quartet that has been playing for local contradances literally for decades.
Leith plays a variety of traditional styles on the fiddle like Irish, Scottish, Quebecois and American Oldtime. She is also a professor of English and Director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies at SFU.
Rob has been playing the mandolin for 48 years. Over that time, he has played with several local bluegrass bands. These days, he performs with the Little Mountain Trio and hosts a bluegrass and oldtime radio show “In the Pines” on Vancouver Cooperative Radio. Rob is a retired ecologist and entomologist.
Leith and Rob play spirited music from a variety of folk traditions on fiddle, voice and mandolin. Community participation is our goal – So please come to our Celtic Kitchen Party event and sing along or kick up your heels.
I have been captivated, engaged and perhaps obsessed with mandolin music since I first heard the music of David Grisman back in the 1970's. The journey since then has spanned many styles of music including bluegrass, jazz, oldtime and Irish. I love to perform for concerts but also to play for contradances. These days, I am developing ideas for accompaniment on the octave mandolin both for voice and violin. —Rob McGregor