Joseph Phillips
Joe Phillips takes every opportunity he can to make friends through music. He reimagines folk traditions learned from field recordings with banjoist Jayme Stone’s Folklife, accompanies Canadian fiddler Shane Cook, lays down bluegrass bass lines and sings tenor harmonies with the Claire Lynch Band, and struts his stuff with Payadora Tango Ensemble. He also collaborates with Irish-American multi-instrumentalist Seamus Egan and performs with Toronto’s genre-defying Art of Time Ensemble. As a classical musician, Joe plays principal bass in London Symphonia and gets to perform with some of the best chamber musicians in the world. Equally at home in a concert hall or at a folk festival, Joe has played at festivals such as Celtic Connections in Glasgow, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Scotia Festival of Music, and the Savannah Music Festival.
He teaches bass at Western University Don Wright Faculty of Music and is on staff every summer at Algoma Trad Camp on St. Joseph Island, Ontario.
When not touring, Joe lives in London Ontario with his partner and their two children.