In a former life, Eric was an award-winning singer/songwriter, playing gigs in 37 states and Canada and releasing three well-received albums of original material and two albums of family material. One of these, Sweet Dreams of Home (a collaborative project with Alabama singer Mae Robertson), won awards for excellence from the American Library Association, Parents' Magazine, and the Oppenheim Foundation. This album and Eric's most recent solo CD are available at CDBaby.com. As an engineer/producer, Eric has produced 40 singer/songwriter projects over the years. These days, when not playing Irish music with Flash Company, Eric can be found doing occasional solo shows of his own material or dispensing blues/r 'n' b/rock and roll standards with Annie and the Attaboys in area clubs - or playing the electric music of Bob Dylan with his very special project (which involves all the boys from Flash Company), Maggie's Farm.
Eric first encountered Irish music in a serious way in the early 1980's when a fortuitous set of circumstances landed him as a mandolin student in a workshop with famed Irish musician and musicologist Mick Moloney. His classmates, discovering that he was relatively new to the world of Celtic music, sent him home with armloads of cassettes of great music by Planxty, Silly Wizard, the Chieftains, Touchstone, and lots of other Irish bands, both contemporary and traditional. His own songwriting began to reflect the Celtic traditions, and he began to learn Irish fiddle tunes on mandolin, octave mandolin, and tenor banjo. Surprisingly, it wasn't until he met Jim Pospisil in 2015 and discovered a mutual love for Celtic music that he began to think seriously about putting together a band that would allow him to indulge his love of this music. Thus, with the addition of old pals John Allers and Bryan Maloney, Flash Company was born! The rest, as they say, is history....