About Airmail Special
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Members
Greg Glassman - bass
Greg has been playing bass and guitar professionally for the last 40+ years. Equally at home in a variety of styles ranging from folk to jazz, Greg has performed in a variety of venues spanning coffeehouses and nightclubs to cruise ships. He has played with many different Puget Sound musicians, and besides Airmail Special, currently plays regularly with vocalist Dina Blade and the Bossa Jóia Trio. Performing with Airmail Special unites Greg with longtime friend and former bandmate of the Skyline Drifters, Pete Martin. In addition to performing Greg has had an active teaching career, both privately and at Bellevue and Cascadia Community Colleges. He has also taught at various music camps including Puget Sound Guitar Workshop and B.C. Swing, Canada.
Elena DeLisle - guitar
Elena DeLisle is a guitarist from Seattle, WA, who has been playing professionally since 1999. She holds a BA in Jazz Guitar and can get around comfortably in many different genres. Elena started off playing in a Sonoma County CA based Jug Band called the Skiffle Symphony. From there she went on to play Bluegrass, Old Time, Cajun, Country Blues, Klezmer, Calentano and Swing. She has most recently played in the Seattle area with Airmail Special, a Western Swing band, The Debaucherauntes, a Seattle based Klezmer/punk fusion group, Touloulou, a traditional Cajun group, and Paul Anastasio and Fire of Tierra Caliente, which plays obscure music from SW Mexico. Elena is also a music educator who teaches K-8 music as well as private lessons.
Pete Martin - mandolin
Pete Martin has been called a "national class mandolin and fiddle player" by the Portland Oregonian and “an impressive multi instrumentalist" by SPBGMA Bluegrass Music News. Playing fiddle, mandolin, guitar and tenor guitar he has performed and recorded with many Northwest artists.
Pete is a former National Adult Fiddle Champion and has placed in the top 5 at the Winfield Mandolin Contest. He was a columnist for Mandolin Magazine and has authored 13 instructional books on mandolin and fiddle playing. He has recently started playing non pedal steel guitar.
Pete teaches lessons all over the world. Information on his publications, free recordings and music lessons is available at www.PeteMartin.info
"Pete Martin is an impressive multi instrumentalist"
Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music Association (SPBGMA) - Bluegrass Music News
"Pete Martin is a national class mandolin and fiddle player"
Portland Oregonian
"What really makes the bands (Skyline Drifters) work extra special is addition of instrumental passages that blend the fanciful flight of jazz and western swing with the solid, right on the money beat of bluegrass. Mandolinist Pete Martin does especially well at this, and deserves a compliment for approaching this type of material with his own invention."
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
"One of the best mandolinists and fiddlers in the northwest"
Vashon (WA) News
Pete is a former National Adult Fiddle Champion and has placed in the top 5 at the Winfield Mandolin Contest. He was a columnist for Mandolin Magazine and has authored 13 instructional books on mandolin and fiddle playing. He has recently started playing non pedal steel guitar.
Pete teaches lessons all over the world. Information on his publications, free recordings and music lessons is available at www.PeteMartin.info
"Pete Martin is an impressive multi instrumentalist"
Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music Association (SPBGMA) - Bluegrass Music News
"Pete Martin is a national class mandolin and fiddle player"
Portland Oregonian
"What really makes the bands (Skyline Drifters) work extra special is addition of instrumental passages that blend the fanciful flight of jazz and western swing with the solid, right on the money beat of bluegrass. Mandolinist Pete Martin does especially well at this, and deserves a compliment for approaching this type of material with his own invention."
Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
"One of the best mandolinists and fiddlers in the northwest"
Vashon (WA) News
