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Tom Jeffers in carved letters  on light leather background
Tom in concert at the Bhigg House
Ten Penny Bit on stage  outdoors. Tom has lots of fuzzy hair!
Playing DADGAD tuned guitar
at a concert in Winnipeg
NAME: Thomas Moore Jeffers

BORN: Yes! Thunderbay Ontario Canada

PARENTS: Father: N. Ireland Mother: Glasgow Scotland

HOME BASE: Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: The Beatles, The Byrds, The Kinks, Buffalo Springfield, Gordon Lightfoot, CSNY, Bob Dylan, Dave Clement, my brother John

INSTRUMENTS PLAYED: Cittern, Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Dulcimer, Bodhran, Button Accordion

FAVOURITE FOODS: Ham & Pineapple Pizza, Chocolate, Cheese Burgers & Fries, Perogies, Whales Tails, Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches.

FAVOURITE DRINKS: Coke Classic, Grapefruit Crush, New Castle Brown Ale, FortGarry Dark Ale, Fruit Shakes, Canada Dry, A&W Root Beer

FAVOURITE PLACES I'VE PLAYED: England, Winnipeg Folk Festival, on a Boat Cruise.

PLACE I'D LIKE TO PLAY: The International Space Station performing "This Island Earth"

WEIRDEST PLACES I'VE PLAYED: At a Yard Sale, on the sloped roof of a house, in an empty railway box car and in the car lift area of a gas station.

WORST PLACE I'VE PLAYED: On a Flat Bed Truck in front of 20 punk rockers (the band talked me out of doing a song called "Take the Skin Heads Bowling")

MOST EXCITING PERFORMANCE: Playing for Ex-president Jimmy Carter and having him and his wife dance while we played Kathy Mar's "Drink Up The River"

ACTS I HAVE PERFORMED WITH: Great Big Sea, The Irish Descendants, James Keelaghan, The Dust Rhinos, Sam Baardman, Talis Kimberley

BEST TOUR: The Talis Kimberley/Canadian Mythical Beasts Tour in Nov. 2000

DISLIKES: Wasps, Taking the plastic off CD's, People who talk loudly when someone is singing, and Closed Minded Musical Snobs.

LIKES: Everyone who I have met through Filk Music especially those over in England and Germany

FAVOURITE SAYINGS: "Yeh! Right! " "Get Out Of Town!"

FAVOURITE PERSON TO EMBARRASS: Debbie Ohi of Urban Tapestry

BANDS PLAYED IN: Decembers Children, Atlantis, Ten Penny Bit, The Crazed Weazles, Death Tongue, Prairie Wind, Dandelion Wine, Curraugh.

HOW LONG WITH DW?: 16 years :-)

MAIN FILK INFLUENCE: Meg Davis

MAIN EARLY FILK SUPPORTERS: Dave Clement, Kathy Mar

The traditional Irish group "Ten Penny Bit" circa mid 70's.
That's me on the far left in green. Al Thomson from Curraugh is in the middle with the mustache.
Tom with the Beatles
My early days with the Beatles
Tom's Cittern gets its picture taken in the sun
My 10 string cittern
made by luthier Larry Fisher.
Photo by Connie Elcombe
Tom gets bussed by a scantily clad babe
Getting a kiss from "Desert Storm" after a GOH performance at Valleycon in Fargo North Dakota in the early 90's.
Tom playing his dulcimer with the red wall of the Bhigg House living room behind him
 Tom playing Cittern and singing Tom shows off the Talis Tour T-shirt as well as the gaudy lining of his vest
Playing my custom-made mountain dulcimer at the Bhigg House during Baggiecon in 1999
The Tour with Talis T-shirt, 1999
Tom playing basswith lots of microphones in the way Tom with his mandolin after playing a song at a room party
Performing at Xylophone in Basingstoke England in 1999.
In a room party at a con with mandolin
Playing bass in concert at FKO 1999
you can e-mail Tom at:
dandelionwine@dandelionwine.net
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Close-up of Tom from the Ten-Penny Bit photo
"Hey Tom Jeffers...
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon,
you make us feel fine..."