Tom Wagner
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Tom Wagner has always loved Irish and Scottish music, though he didn't hear a lot of it until he moved to the Bay Area in 1972.  Prior to that, he'd been in several folk and old-time music groups: singing and playing guitar and banjo in the '60s Folk revival and Folk-Rock veins. 

In 1973, he joined two other performers to form a group called Oak Ash & Thorn (OAT), focusing on a capella renditions in the English traditional vein.  Over the next 30-odd (and we do mean odd) years, his emphasis was mostly on vocal a capella music as he worked primarily with OAT, but also with the Berkeley Chamber Chorus and the Baroque Philharmonia, Oakland Symphony Chorus, the Midsummer Mozart Festival Chorus - to name a few.  OAT is still very active locally, and is the other musical center of Tom’s life.  You can check them out at www.oakashthorn.com

Lately, in the throes of semi-retirement, Tom has been re-discovering his instrumental side in the Celtic context.  He’s brought childhood instruments like fiddle, accordion and guitar back out of the closet and begun to work seriously at them, most recently with traditional group Tinker’s Damn and in a trio with whistle player Tim Hart and fiddler Michael Mullen.   On the guitar, he plays in DADGAD tuning mostly, though he’s begun exploring swing and jazz chording in EADGBE as well. 

Partial Discography:

A Dickens Christmas, Living History Productions, 1976

Mozart: Coronation Mass, George Cleve, SJ Symphony Chorus, EMI, 1978

Sowing Wild OATs, Tosspot Records, 1980

Out On A Limb, Tosspot Records, 1984

Always Coming Home (Musical Accompaniment to the Novel by Tod Barton & Ursula LeGuin), Harper & Row, 1985

Old Enough To Drink, Tosspot Records, 2003

Fiddler’s Creed, Wise Cat Records, 2004

Five After Four, Tim Hart, 2005

In Harmony’s Way, , 2005