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Music

Brian Kobayakawa

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HOME GAMES He and his band, the Creaking Tree Quartet, play the City Roots Festival Sunday (June 29) at the Distillery District.

NICKNAME Bobes (an amalgamation of his last name and a chicken puppet named Bobo).

POSITION Bass and the back left seat of the van.

TEAM MEMBERS Andrew Collins (mandolin), Brad Keller (guitar), John Showman (fiddle), and for this show, the Undesirables’ Corin Raymond (vocals) and Sean Cotton (guitar/vocals).

ROOKIE YEAR Started playing bass at 12, learning in friends’ basements, at Humber College and at U of T.

LEAGUE Chamber-?grass – instrumental acoustic roots music of some sort.

STATS The Soundtrack (2007), Side Two (2004), Creaking Tree String Quartet (2003)

SPECIAL TALENTS Goalie for the Meat Hockey Club (“but if you’ve seen me play, I’m not sure that qualifies as a talent”) handsome penmanship designs all the band’s album covers.

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