“I like a nice blend of having fun and taking music seriously”. I suppose that explains the large sections of Bach and Homer and Jethro in Mr. Bell’s music collection. A past resident of Wallowa County, Matt lives in New Orleans where he lives and breathes traditional jazz, old time country music and – well let’s just say etcetera. He earned his masters degree in music from the University of New Orleans. If you want to check out bands he works with on a regular basis, go to the You Tube and look up: Roochie Toochie and the Ragtime Shepherd Kings (2015 winners of Clifftop neo trad contest), Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses (we played at Lincoln Center!), The Wasted Lives (honky tonkin’) and the Bad Penny Pleasuremakers (Every bit as fun as your great granddad’s jokes).