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HOME GAME Chris Coole and the Foggy Hogtown Boys with guests Oh Susanna, Dallas Good, Paul Reddick and Tony Allen as Fiddlin’ Santa, play the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina) Friday (December 21), 10 pm. www.silverdollarroom.com.
NICKNAMES Coolio
POSITION Guitar, vocals
TEAM MEMBERS Chris Quinn (banjo), Andrew Collins (mandolin, vocals), John Showman (fiddle, vocals), Max Heineman (bass, vocals)
LEAGUE Imagine Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley had a baby and called it Bill Stanley
ROOKIE YEAR Started playing guitar at 13, banjo at 17, played pedal steel in a hippy country-rock band in high school, busked in the subways for 10 years.
STATS Pigtown Fling (07), Northern White Clouds (05), The Foggy Hogtown Boys Live At The Dominion (04) won best band and best instrumental band (06, 07) and best guitarist (06) at the Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards
SPECIAL TALENTS He’s a fairly decent fly fisherman and isn’t afraid of bees.
