Randy has performed with Doc Watson, Jack Lawrence, Jim Lauderdale, Doug Jernigan, Roy Huskey Jr., and opened for Allison Krauss, Tim O'Brien, Mark O'Connor, Laurie Lewis, Tony Furtado, English Folk-diva June Tabor and ex-Fairport Convention member Jerry Donahue, to name a few. Randy's original songs have been featured on BBC Radio, NPR Radio affiliates and PBS-TV Song of the Mountains.


Randy has performed at Merlefest (Wilkesboro, NC), Walnut Vally Festival (Winfield, KS), Riverhawk Music Festival (Brooksville, FL), Song of the Mountians (PBS Television Series), King Pup Syndicated Radio, Red White & Bluegrass Festival (Morganton, NC), Albino Skunk Festival (Greer, SC), Wyoming BBQ & Bluegrass Festival (Worland, WY), Susanville Bluegrass Festival (Susanville, CA), Wickenburg Bluegrass Festival (Wickenburg, AZ), Plum Hollow Festival (Campobello, SC), Chomp & Stomp Festival (Atlanta, GA), Mean Fiddler (London, England), Christmas in July Festival (West Jefferson, NC), High Mountain Hayfever Bluegrass Festival (Westcliffe, CO), Midsummer in the Northwoods Bluegrass Music Festival (Manitowish Waters, WI), Nelson McGee Memorial Bluegrass Festival (San Angelo, TX), AGEC Bluegrass (Paris, France), Didmarton Bluegrass Festival (England), Ironbridge Bluegrass Festival (England), North Yorkshire Bluegrass Festival (England), North Wales Bluegrass Festival (Wales), Scottish Bluegrass Association (Scotland), Hamishes' Hoose (Paisley, Scotland), Brookfield Knights Scottish Tour (Loudon Temple Prod.), Güglinger Bluegrass Festival (Germany).



Randy was raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He began learning the guitar, mandolin and the roots of bluegrass and country music at an early age. He helped form his first band in high school, Phoenix Mountain Strings. They played anywhere/anytime, from late night festivals to early morning church revivals. After college, Randy spent two years in Las Vegas with the US Air Force. This gave him his first experience of playing bars and casinos with the spaced-out unit Redeye. His next move took him to England. He traveled throughout southern England performing with the country trio, Borderline, for two years where he played pubs and clubs until his separation from the service. He remained in England for another eight years where he played with bluegrass diehard monster-banjo-thumper Roger Blackbourne & 'Monroe's Revenge', and other bands which featured five-string banjo ace Richard Collins. While still in England, Randy met up with the Jeff Beck of bluegrass banjo, Leon Hunt. Randy, Leon, Mike Pryor and Steve Mazillius formed the bluegrass band, Southern Exposure. Southern Exposure successfully recorded, produced, toured and promoted their CD, Small Town, in the British Isles and Europe. Randy wrote five of the eleven tracks on the album. Randy's next move took him to Nashville, where he lived for two years. While in Nashville, he released an independently produced country CD in which six of ten songs were self-penned. Randy has since returned to his native northwest North Carolina where he has the privilege to pick with some of the best musicians in the biz in a hotbed of bluegrass and Americana music. Randy completed a solo album is currently gigging hard and continues to write and record.