(e.g., "New York guitar player" or "Beatles influenced drummer")

Musician - Joseph Carmichael

• Age 15 | Musician | Carrollton, TX

|"Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy." Psalm 33:3|

Born into a musical family, it seems I was in a sense almost destined to one day begin playing music.

Having my dad playing guitar, mandolin, bass, and accordion, a brother who plays guitar, bass, sings and writes his own music (and and plays anything else he can get his hands on), three sisters who all sing, and one who plays guitar and piano, and my mom who sings as well, I had always wanted to play guitar, though it never quite seemed to catch on, and then piano, which didn't work either.

A few years back (though it seems like much longer) I discovered Celtic music, and after awhile of being exposed to it little by little, I found a strong liking for it, along with classical music and most other styles too.

I had an old recorder, and started messing around with it after hearing the opening song from "Chrono Cross". Then, last year, I picked up the tinwhistle, and on new year's eve I finally got a simple-system flute I had been wanting to get ever since I heard a flute solo of "Christmas Eve", and have been playing that for almost a year now.

Around two or two and a half years ago I started using a MIDI program on my computer, and started messing around with it, and sometime last year I started getting some actually good music.

I am mostly self-taught on my instruments, with some tips along the way. I now compose folk tunes and songs, some solo music, and a bit of video game music, and hopefully in time, some movie-quality music too. I play a variety of instruments and have plans to learn the Irish Uilleann pipes and Scottish smallpipes. I also play with the newly-formed trad group, the Celtic Knotheads.

I like just about any music that's good, but, as you can tell, Celtic is my favorite.

The options for instruments aren't quite wide enough, as the flute I play is the simple-system flute, tin whistle, and the percussion is an Irish frame drum called the bodhran.

• Flute,
• Backup Vocals,
• Mandolin,
• Guitar,
• Percussion,
• Piano,
• Keyboard,
• Recorder

• World,
• Classical,
• Celtic,
• Rock,
• Christian Rock,
• Fusion,
• Contemporary Christian,
• Folk,
• Bluegrass,
• Acoustic

• Tuba,
• Trumpet,
• Trombone,
• Saxophone,
• Recorder,
• Oboe,
• Harmonica,
• French Horn,
• Flute,
• Flugelhorn,
• Cornet,
• Clarinet,
• Basson,
• Bagpipes,
• Lead Vocals,
• Backup Vocals,
• Violin,
• Viola,
• Upright Bass,
• Ukulele,
• Pedal Steel Guitar,
• Mandolin,
• Lap Steel Guitar,
• Harp,
• Guitar,
• Fiddle,
• Dobro,
• Contrabass,
• Cello,
• Bass Guitar,
• Banjo,
• Xylophone,
• Vibraphone,
• Steel Drum,
• Percussion,
• Marimba,
• Drum Kit,
• Piano,
• Organ,
• Keyboard,
• Accordion

• World,
• Latin,
• Flamenco,
• Classical,
• Celtic,
• Ska,
• Rock n Roll,
• Rock,
• Punk,
• Progressive Rock,
• Light Rock,
• Indie,
• Heavy Metal,
• Goth,
• Classic Rock,
• Christian Rock,
• Americana,
• Alternative,
• Fusion,
• Experimental,
• Electronic,
• Contemporary Christian,
• Jam Band,
• Singer/Songwriter,
• Gospel,
• Folk,
• Country,
• Bluegrass,
• Acoustic

The Chieftains, The Kells, Lunasa, Kathleen Keane, Joanie Madden, Michael McGoldrick, Matt Molloy, The Kells, Seamus Egan, Seamus Ennis, Sir James Galway, Howard Shore, Loreena McKennitt, Jose Angel Hevia, Omnia, John Williams, Klaus Badelt, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna, Carl Orff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonio Vivaldi, Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, Flogging Molly, Michael W. Smith, Michael Card,
The Corrs, Delirious?, Needfire, Enter the Haggis, The Killdares, Corvus Corax, Green Day, Evanescence, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath,
The Black Mages, David Crowder Band, Five Iron Frenzy, Goldfinger,
A Fire Inside, The Insyderz, Relient K, Semisonic, Skillet,
The Proclaimers, Queen, Calibretto 13, Coldplay, DC Talk, Nickelback, The Opera Babes, The Joey Witham Band, The W's, Third Eye Blind, Sonic Flood, Within Temptation, System of a Down, The Fall of Troy, Rhapsody of Fire, Petra, The Newsboys, Epica, Nevertheless, The Goo Goo Dolls, Amy Grant

• I guess average. I'm certainly no professional, in my opinion, but I play well enough to get around at least. As for years, recorder- around 3 or so, whistle- around 1 and 1/2, piano- a few months, guitar- maybe a year, flute, a little over a year. I've been composing I think somewhere around 2-4 years.

• Other musicians who like and play the same kinds of music I do, as well as some people who play other styles like jazz, rock, etc., who wouldn't mind mixing some styles together to see what we come up with.

• Experience: Intermediate
  
• Availability: 2-3 days a week
  
• Commitment: Music is life
  
• Energy: In the groove
  

• Smokes: Nope
  
• Drinks: Nope
  

• Experience: Novice
  
• Energy: In the groove
  

• Tolerates Smoking: Don't Care
  
• Tolerates Drinking: Don't Care