Paul Knight began playing electric bass at age fourteen. He was taught basic blues and boogie bass lines that were the foundation of much of the popular music of his youth. He picked up the double bass twenty one years ago and never looked back. He’s played in several Bay Area bands and appeared on Sandy Rothman’s CD Old Road to Home within his first year as an upright player. The next year he hit the road as tour manager and sound engineer for Laurie Lewis & Grant Street. During that time Paul was learning from the top acoustic players while traveling to music festivals all over the U.S. & Europe. He met Peter Rowan at a festival in 1994 and performed with him at the Kate Wolf Festival that year. Peter and Paul have been working together ever since, eventually forming the Peter Rowan Bluegrass band and receiving a Grammy nomination for the band’s Legacy release in 2010. Since 1992 Paul has toured, recorded and performed with many wonderful musicians  including The David Thom Band, Judith Edelman, Scott Nygaard, Due West, Perfect Strangers, Kleptograss, Jody Stecher, The Auxcajunals, Jim Lauderdale, Chris Stuart & Back Country, Kathy Kalick Band, Nina Gerber, Scott Law, The Tuttle Family, David Grisman Quintet and more.

Paul is a regular fixture at this camp; besides providing the best sound for all our concerts, he has taught many classes, including this one, in the past, and always gets very enthusiastic positive feedback from his students. He’s a talented teacher as well as bassist and sound guy, and we’re lucky to have him on staff.