Come see the fantastic Fiddlin' Pete at the June Lake Loop Mountain Music Festival! This amazing prefromer will dazzle your sense with his frenzied fiddlin' at The Great Outdoors Concert! ($20 at the door, $18 online)

Fiddlin’ Pete Watercott has been playing music for nearly 40 years. At age ten Pete began playing the viola. In 1964, Pete’s sister, Kit, brought a plywood sunburst “Stella” guitar into the Watercott home. Pete took to strummin’ out the folk ballads of Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Phil Oaks, Pete Seeger, and anything that Sing Out! Magazine would print.

After High School Pete met life long friend and fellow songwriter, Larry Long. The pair traveled extensively throughout the U.S., hitchhiking, hopping freights, and in the mid-seventies traveling in the Lone Prairie Schooner and the Red Caboose. Adding Neil Gelvin and Dale Cannon, they formed the group “Nevada Swing,” and embarked on a bi-centennial North American tour.

In recent years, Pete has been a frequently invited guest performing at the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, OK, the Elko National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and the Millpond Music Festival. Last summer Pete has also performed at Larry Fest in Wisconsin, and the Minneapolis Monarch Festival. Celebrating the wild Mustang’s heritage in the West, Pete has led horseback songwriting groups with Rock Creek Pack Station, drawing inspiration from the wild horses. Now in a sixth season, Pete has self produced a popular summer Dinner Concert series at the Pokonobe Lodge in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Pete has also produced five albums, (CDs), of his music.

Last September, Fiddlin’ Pete and Larry Long boarded the “California Zephyr” in Chicago and played music all the way to Reno, NV on their self-proclaimed “Liberty Train!” The pair arrived just in time to perform at Bishop’s annual Millpond Music Festival. In January, 2010, Pete was invited to perform at the STARS Dinner Theater in Bakersfield, CA, the “Nashville of the West”! The show was such a success, Pete was welcomed back to the Stars Theater for performances on June 18 & 19. At the 2010 Poetry Gathering in Elko, Pete teamed up with cowboy entertainer, Ernie Sites, for a week long engagement at JR’s Gold Country Inn and Casino. Through Fall, Winter, and Spring Pete premiered a series of Dinner Concerts at the Sierra Inn of June Lake. In May, Fiddlin’ Pete & Neil Gelvin were invited to perform at the first annual Canadian River Music Festival in the Texas Panhandle town of Canadian.

Performing solo or with long time friend and guitarist, Neil Gelvin, Pete’s shows feature original songs, traditional folk songs and western classics, with some hot fiddle tunes thrown in to spice things up.

Fiddlin’ Pete’s music is perfect for many events! To contact Pete and for his complete performance schedule and information go to www.fiddlinpete.com where you can sign up to receive e-mail updates from Pete. Search Fiddlin’ Pete on youtube to watch live videos of Pete’s live performance.