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The Free Range Chickens is a Dallas based old time band featuring Ray Quigley on fiddle, Jim Cadorette on mandolin and fiddle, Tevis Kriechbaum on clawhammer banjo, and David Kesterson on guitar. This band is fun to dance to--crisp, clear, and rhythmic. The booming dreadnought guitar provides a firm foundation for the melody carried by the fiddle and mandolin with the support of the clawhammer banjo surging to prominence and receding back to rhythmic accompaniment. This is a sure combination of sounds, executed by dynamic and well tempered musicians.
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Ray Quigley, fiddle, lives in Dallas and works as a pediatrician at a
major hospital. Ray has danced at the Dallas dance almost since its beginning.
Dancing ladies who love to twirl know him for his super-accelorator-speed
spins. Ray also dances at special events with the NTTDS Morris dancers
and Rapper Dancers. Playing fiddle with many bands, Ray is a regular with
Squirrelheads in Gravy and the English country dance band, Martha’s
Maggot, bearing the namesake of his lovely wife.
Jim Cadorette, mandolin and fiddle, lives in Frisco and also plays with
the band, Pig Ankle. He is a salesman for Sky King Air Freight and plays
a 1920-ish Gibson ‘A’ model mandolin.
Tevis Kriechbaum, clawhammer banjo lives and teaches
school in Dallas. Spending Monday through Friday with seventh graders is
made possible only by the fact that she gets to jam with great musicians
on weekends and breaks. Tevis spends no small amount of time asking “What
key are we going to??” (Banjo players can relate.) She has played
for 15 years and adores her Wildwood Heirloom banjo. (She is totally opposed
to forming Mrs. Kriechbaum’s Middle School Banjo Choir.)
David Kesterson, guitar, is a social worker and lives in Dallas. He has
danced at the Dallas dances since 1995 where he became interested in this
style of music and is seen with various combinations of our local musicians.
He continues to enjoy dancing and playing and helps facilitate the dances
doubling as sound engineer and various other volunteer duties where needed.
He plays on a hand made Taylor guitar.
